Did a collision with a giant asteroid or comet change the shape of life on Earth forever? It is widely agreed that such an object -- 10 kilometers across -- struck just off the coast of the Yucatan ...
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In the spirit of “everything is connected,” a new study found that the extinction of the dinosaurs paved the way for the ...
The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction Event: How Dinosaurs Took Over Roughly 201 million years ago, the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event wiped out about 76% of all marine and land species on Earth. This ...
Who knows what life would have looked like on Earth if an extinction-level event hadn't killed all of the dinosaurs? I highly doubt the dinosaurs would have let us evolve and take over the planet the ...
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Rocks formed immediately before and after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct are strikingly different, and now, tens of millions of years later, scientists think they’ve identified the culprit—and it ...
Many giant animals roamed the Earth after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / Dmitry Bogdanov via Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 3.0 / Dmitry Bogdanov via Wikipedia under CC ...
Extinction implies that the species that perish are poorly adapted to a changing set of conditions. Faced with an evolving group of competing organisms -- the mammals -- perhaps dinosaurs were driven ...