The findings suggest that mass extinctions are not always caused by a single dramatic event.

Qreiya 3 is a remarkable fossil site which is providing scientists with an unprecedented glimpse into marine life. There is ...

When the asteroid finally reached Earth, those near the impact site would have seen a blinding fireball, heard a deafening ...

Paleontologists in Egypt have stumbled upon an extraordinary fossil haul: nearly 500 fish frozen in time. The site, called ...

An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

In all, 75% of Earth's species went extinct, including the nonavian dinosaurs. So how did some animals ‪—‬ including species ...

Around 66 million years ago, the reign of the dinosaurs came to a fiery end. An asteroid about 7 miles (12 kilometers) wide, flying at 27,000 mph (43,000 km/h), slammed directly into Earth. The impact ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a colossal asteroid, about 10km in diameter, struck Earth in the area of what is now the Caribbean, triggering instantaneous and catastrophic changes that led to the ...

Two scientists have described the bright fireball, crackling noise and sonic boom of the impact 66m years ago ...

Flowering plants survived Earth’s worst disasters, including the asteroid strike that ended the dinosaurs, while many others ...

Birds and dinosaurs lived together for millions of years, but only toothless birds survived the asteroid impact that upended ...