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 most famous die-off ended the reign of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago between the Cretaceous and Tertiary ... Now we are creating a new mass extinction, wiping out countless species.

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

When we talk about mass extinction events ... and triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs. However, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was not the worst loss of life in our planet ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

Prof. HE Shunping's team from the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), along with ...

A joint research team from China and abroad has for the first time found that mammaliaforms from the Jurassic and Cretaceous ...

and after the Triassic-Jurassic extinction that cleared the way for the dinosaurs. The Cretaceous period was the time of the cockroaches, and they thus survived just one of the five mass ...

The most recent of these events occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period ... we are currently witnessing the start of a sixth mass extinction. Humans are dramatic ecosystem engineers ...