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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 ...

New Scientist's popular Last Word series gives readers the opportunity to answer each other's questions about everyday science phenomena, from the shape of scones to the evolutionary history of ...

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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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WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris has a lot of options for her next act — including possible runs for governor of California in 2026 and president in 2028 — but writing a book may be ...

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 ...