Learn more about how this hydrothermal system may have provided life on Earth with vital nutrients after the dino-killing ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

The most studied mass extinction, which marked the boundary ... and the only one definitively connected to a major asteroid impact. Some 76 percent of all species on the planet, including all ...

Is the biosphere today on the verge of anything like the mass extinctions of the geological ... Humanity's main impact on the extinction rate is landscape modification, an impact greatly increased ...

Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula and triggered the mass extinction event that ... on its collision course. The impact left behind a giant crater known ...

Asteroid impacts and volcanism have led to mass ... and come to be known to paleontologists as our world’s first mass extinction. Extinction is a fact of life. Of all the species that have ...

Research published earlier this year by him and his colleagues suggests that massive quantities of sulfur from bedrock at the impact ... asteroid. Whether current biodiversity loss—a crisis by any ...

though not enough for it to be a mass extinction event. The International Asteroid Warning Network put out a list of possible impact locations, which largely includes empty oceans and uninhabited ...