Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study reveals dinosaurs in New Mexico were thriving just before the asteroid impact that ended their reign, overturning long ...

After years of detective work, University geosciences professor Gerta Keller and her colleagues have found that an intensive period of volcanic eruptions and a series of asteroid impacts likely ended ...

New research from the University of Kansas might resolve a mystery in the "aging process" in species—or, how a species' risk of going extinct changes after that species appears on the scene. (Phys.org ...

WASHINGTON -- A steep decline in birds, butterflies and native plants in Britain supports the theory that humans are pushing the natural world into the Earth's sixth big extinction event and the ...

The end of the Cretaceous period saw disastrous geological and astronomical events, but researchers say that one in particular is to blame for the mass extinction. Reading time 3 minutes For years, ...

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For his work on the hydrogen bubble chamber and the identification of resonance states (usually short-lived subatomic particles) Luis Alvarez had served as administrator to a large staff using the ...

Plankton fossils dating from 65 million years ago help confirm the theory that a long, dark winter doomed the dinosaurs, according to international research. Scientists from Italy, the Netherlands and ...