New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

The end of the Cretaceous Period saw one of the most dramatic mass extinctions Earth has ever seen. Find out what brought about the end of the dinosaurs and many other animals too. The fossil record ...

The so-called Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction ... leading some to call this period the "sixth mass extinction." Unlike ...

When we talk about mass extinction events ... Earth about 66 million years ago and triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs. However, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was not the ...

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some ... killer responsible for the largest of the many mass extinctions that have struck the planet.

The Cretaceous period was the time of the cockroaches, and they thus survived just one of the five mass extinctions that occurred before the one we're living in right now. Nor are they ...

The end of the Cretaceous Period came when a giant asteroid struck Earth, causing the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs. Many scholars assumed that modern birds evolved in response to this mass ...

The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our understanding of this mass extinction has been largely shaped by fossils ...

Extinction is inevitable ... The most recent of these events occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago, following an asteroid collision off the shore of Mexico.