Researchers discovered a protein in a 68- to 66-million-year-old fossil that many scientists would have argued should have long been destroyed.

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There was a lot of luck as to which Cretaceous creatures made it through, but some features were definitely an advantage.

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

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Previous studies have posited that the mass ... the related Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary layer, the international team has demonstrated that the role of sulfur during the extinction ...

He discounts the view that an asteroid was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Twenty-two of North America’s 34 known species of dinosaurs were already extinct before an asteroid struck ...

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The species met its demise during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event (known as the KT extinction) that also wiped out the dinosaurs, experts say. “A meteorite big enough to be called a ...