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

Previous studies have posited that the mass ... extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub ...

One such question is whether we are stepping into the sixth mass extinction ... occurrences such as volcanic eruptions, asteroid impacts, or drastic climate changes. The most famous of these ...

The impact created a cloud of dust composed ... and lowering temperatures for years, resulting in mass extinction. As for the asteroid, “there’s nothing left except for this chemical trace ...

Related: NASA's DART asteroid-impact mission will be a key test ... a flood basalt corresponding with the Cretaceous period mass extinction and three of the other five mass extinctions recorded ...

And while every mass extinction has winners and losers ... Denmark and New Zealand, to the impact of a large asteroid. They argued the unusual layer represented the exact moment in time when ...

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 ...

“The research on this proposes the Chicxulub mass extinction was mainly governed ... now hope to study the climatic effects of the asteroid impact on a much longer timescale.

It has been linked to the impact of a giant asteroid that smashed into the Earth. The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event, as it is known, sparked drastic ecological changes around ...