A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

The event was formerly known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T ... "We've shown the impact and the mass extinction coincided as much as one can possibly demonstrate with existing dating techniques ...

An extraterrestrial impact or a bout of volcanism from within was perhaps too much for many of Earth's species to handle. Long before the carnage began, the Cretaceous ... event at the end of ...

The mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, which terminated the ... that this lends some support to suggestions that the impact event affected the Deccan Traps eruptions—linking the ...

At that point, as the Cretaceous period yielded to the Paleogene ... when scientists were able to link the extinction event to a huge impact crater along the coast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula.

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

These findings will hopefully provide further avenues to increase our understanding of the events around the end-Cretaceous impact, and potentially other major boundary events.

“An asteroid impact is supported by really good evidence because ... The asteroid was the final, killer blow. During the Cretaceous extinction event, plants were less affected than animals because ...

Nadir was “inconsequential to the end-Cretaceous extinctions,” Dr. Kring said. But such regionally destructive impact events are “a fairly common geologic occurrence” — scant comfort to ...