There’s a solid consensus among scientists about what happened to the dinosaurs 66 million years ago: A mountain-sized meteorite crashed into the planet and triggered a mass extinction. The debris ...

Climate change triggered by massive volcanic eruptions may have ultimately set the stage for the dinosaur extinction, challenging the traditional narrative that a meteorite alone delivered the final ...

Around 201 million years ago, a mass extinction wiped out 75% of the species on Earth. This was not the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs but an earlier event that ultimately led to ...

Don’t look now, but there’s a volcano erupting on Pine Island Road — rumbling and smoking and blasting fireballs into the Cape Coral sky. It’s hard to miss. And that’s the whole point, says Chris ...

While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted. Massive ...

For decades, a few hundred miles northeast of Beijing, the Yixian Formation has offered up a treasure trove of exquisite dinosaur fossils dating back to the early Cretaceous (about 145 to 66 million ...

What wiped out the dinosaurs? A meteorite plummeting to Earth is only part of the story, a new study suggests. Climate change triggered by massive volcanic eruptions may have ultimately set the stage ...

New research points to volcanic activity as a major cause of prehistoric mass extinctions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Major ...

A small badger-like mammal and a juvenile bipedal dinosaur were locked in a battle to the death 125 million years ago when they were both killed and perfectly preserved by a volcanic mudflow. When you ...

It's been 66 million years since dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and many may blame an asteroid's explosive collision with our planet for the end of the creatures' reign. But for years, scientists have ...

NEW YORK — When the ancient supercontinent Pangea began to break apart 200 million years ago, it unleashed volcanic hell on Earth. New research from the Columbia Climate School reveals that five rapid ...

Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide ...