Darkness, not cold or acidification, was the main driver of marine extinctions after the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

The findings suggest that mass extinctions are not always caused by a single dramatic event.

The incredible aftermath of the Chicxulub asteroid impact—one of the most cataclysmic events in Earth’s history—is unfolding ...

An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-T) extinction, scientists are still finding stunning evidence of its destruction. In 2021, researchers ...

When a 10-kilometer asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, the planet was plunged into darkness—and about 75% of species vanished, including marine life. Now, a new study reveals that the ...

Artist's impression of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. At the Cretaceous-Paleogene transition 66 million years ago, an asteroid about 10 kilometers in ...

A small, secretive group of lizards that still exists today may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the vicinity of the Chicxulub asteroid collision, which led to the ...

The Chicxulub impact structure in Mexico is widely believed to be the site of the asteroid impact that allegedly killed the dinosaurs. As Sergio de Régules reports, scientists are now preparing to ...

Millions of years before jazz filled New Orleans streets or fishing boats were harvesting shrimp in the Gulf, Louisiana was home to terrifying sea monsters, a tenacious mammal and a seismic cataclysm ...

In the long shadow of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, life appears to have bounced back with surprising speed. A new analysis of sedimentation rates suggests that the first wave of marine ...