New research shows Montana’s ancient rivers remained stable and undeterred during the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction ...

Reefs have been called underwater cities built by the organisms that inhabit them. The term “reef” usually refers to a coral reef, because corals make the vast majority of reefs today, but in the ...

"Specifically, the impact of their extinction may not just be observable by the disappearance of their fossils in the rock record, but also by changes in the sediments themselves." Dr. Weaver says the ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event, marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods approximately 66 million years ago, stands as one of the most profound ...

A new study by researchers from the University of Bath (UK) and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico) shows that flowering plants escaped relatively unscathed from the mass extinction that ...