Did ‘volcanic winters’ lead to dinosaur extinction?
Climate change triggered by massive volcanic eruptions, and not a meteorite plummeting to Earth, may have led to dinosaurs’ extinction.
Climate change triggered by massive volcanic eruptions, and not a meteorite plummeting to Earth, may have led to dinosaurs’ extinction.
A few groups of palm-like plants that were a favored food of grazing dinosaurs still exist today. Now researchers have discovered how.
Massive volcanic eruptions over the past 260 million years caused lethal climate change that led to mass extinctions, researchers say.
A study of a lizard species in Arizona revealed that nearly 70 years’ worth of climate-related extinction occurred in just seven years.
A study of the La Brea Tar Pits that reveals climate’s role in the extinction of large mammals and offers a warning for the future.
A study of the La Brea Tar Pits that reveals climate’s role in the extinction of large mammals and offers a warning for the future.
The discovery of an “exquisite” sabertooth cat skull offers clues about the iconic Ice Age species before its extinction.
Animals, the seeds they disperse, and the plants result are part of a delicate and threatened ecosystem on Mauritius.
Animals, the seeds they disperse, and the plants result are part of a delicate and threatened ecosystem on Mauritius.
A new discovery challenges understanding of how quickly life recovered from the greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history.