Now, evidence suggests that some of these spiral-shaped species did manage to persist after all. Recent analysis of ammonite ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the impacts of this ancient event, scientists hope to ensure that mussels, ...

When most people think of massive snakes, the first one that comes to mind is the anaconda. Anacondas might be the largest ...

While dinosaurs were wiped out when a massive asteroid struck Earth, ammonites survived the massive explosion, only to ...

A massive trove of global fossil data has revealed variations in how elasmobranch species – sharks, skates, and rays – recovered after the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event. Among the ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

Cretaceous-tertiary cloud chamber / Niles Eldredge -- Palynological change across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary on Seymour Island, Antarctica : environmental and depositional factors / Rosemary A.

(CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of species from ...

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event, marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods approximately 66 million years ago, stands as one of the most profound ...

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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 ...