New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of ...

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

“Their link to those mass extinctions ... Researchers first identified the cause of the end-Cretaceous extinction by the discovery of the “iridium anomaly” — a 1-centimeter-thick (0.4 ...

Unexplained mass extinctions on EarthIn the study ... extinction.Researchers first identified the cause of the end-Cretaceous extinction by the discovery of the “iridium anomaly” — a ...