An asteroid strike 66 million years ago triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs, along with about three-quarters of the Earth’s animal species. A new Yale ...

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event, marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods approximately 66 million years ago, stands as one of the most profound ...

Learn how the emergence of new plankton species started life's swift recovery after the asteroid impact that killed most ...

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, marked one of Earth’s most dramatic mass die-offs. Before this event, the planet thrived with dinosaurs, ...

The researchers began to suspect changes in geology was somehow related to the mass extinction of dinosaurs - called the Cretaceous-Paleogene, or K-Pg, mass extinction. They started to examine what ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...