This event occurred across the world and witnessed the loss of around 75 percent of all species of animals during a very narrow point of time – the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene ...

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the ...

Caption This is a visual representation of the evolution of the European continental ecosystems across the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary Extinction Event: the diverse vertebrate assemblages of the ...

Today, the fossilized remains of these creatures are buried beneath a conspicuous layer of sediment or rock that geologists call the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary. The layer is typically ...

3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic ... the absence of the giant mosasaurs and plesiosaurs of the Cretaceous. Squid and other soft-bodied cephalopods replaced ...

The Cretaceous is a geological period that began 145 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago. It is the last period in the Mesozoic Era. It comes after the Jurassic Period and before the ...

These key records span the last million years of the Cretaceous and are synchronized down to 5,000 years or less, geologically a blink of an eye 66 million years ago," says lead author Thomas ...