In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

The molten rock was hot enough to melt the surrounding rocks and release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into Earth's ...

Although the fifth mass extinction wiped out three-quarters of all species on Earth, each species-specific ecosystem survived. "It's a really interesting and slightly disquieting find.

Close to 66 million years ago, during spring in the Northern Hemisphere, a 6-mile-wide chunk of space rock slammed into our planet and set off the world’s fifth mass extinction.

The fifth mass extinction event, the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) Extinction, transpired about 65 million years ago, famously causing the extinction of the dinosaurs.

“Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America,” the book by Dan Flores (WW Norton, 2022) provides the history of the interaction between fauna and Homo sapiens in the… ...

In a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers pieced together the chemical identity of the asteroid that fueled the planet’s fifth mass extinction event.

An analysis of data from more than 3,200 fossils of sharks and rays has yielded a better understanding of the reasons for those species' extinction or survival during Earth's fifth mass extinction ...

The world’s sixth mass extinction is already underway, ... The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction, the fifth mass extinction which occurred around 65 million years ago, lasted about 1-2.5 million years, ...

Paleontologist Ken Lacovara never expected to find critical fossil data in a New Jersey suburb—let alone info about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. His dig site is now a fossil park and ...

A study reveals the chemical makeup of the Chicxulub asteroid that collided with Earth and resulted in the extinction of nearly all dinosaurs 66 million years ago.