Recent research conducted by the University of Bristol hypothesizes that mammals started to adapt to a more ground-oriented ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

When we talk about mass extinction events, the first case that usually comes to mind is when an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million years ago and triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a ...

A regurgitated clump of sea lily fragments from at least two different species of sea lilies that were eaten during the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago ... roamed the earth, has been ...

Quasiperiodic changes in Earth's orbit around the sun regulate ... geologically a blink of an eye, 66 million years ago," says lead author of the article published in Science Advances, Thomas ...

A palaeontologist explains. Did all dinosaurs become extinct — killed when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago? Or could a few of them, somehow, have survived that mass extinction ...

Most dinosaurs suddenly went extinct about 66 million years ago after an asteroid struck Earth. You can see evidence of this impact at the Chicxulub crater on the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico ...

Earth`s interior provides heat from radioactive ... geologically a blink of an eye 66 million years ago," says lead author Thomas Westerhold from MARUM -- Center for Marine Environmental Sciences ...