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

“That's what we call a derived feature. Something that evolved over the evolution of birds likely sometime in the Cenozoic, ...

It dates to between 75 and 65 million years ago. In other words, this specimen lived very close to the Cretaceous mass extinction, the event that wiped out the dinosaurs. Like other abelisaurids ...

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These two ideas have fueled debate for decades and even appear in modern children’s books about dinosaur history ... sulfate-driven cooling event ~30 kyr before the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass ...

This coincides with the cataclysmic asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period ... Fossil grape seeds reveal fruit thrived after mass extinction The fossil seed Lithouva susmanii ...

Geoffrey Hinton, often referred to as one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence, believes there is a 10% to 20% chance that AI could drive humanity to extinction within 30 years.