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A fossil trove in China provides a rare window into a mass extinction event that happened more than 500 million years ago
When considering mass extinctions, people often think of the asteroid strike that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. But life on Earth has experienced many extinction events. Now, a trove of fossils ...
A new Swansea University study has used advanced artificial intelligence to discover the asteroid strike that wiped out the ...
Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign.
A new study using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 ...
Dinosaurs were already struggling before asteroid strike that doomed them to extinction, study finds
The strike created the 125-mile-wide Chicxulub crater, unleashing climate-changing gases into the atmosphere, ultimately killing off three quarters of life on the planet. The researchers looked at a ...
Recent digs revealed roughly 20 feet of a long-necked dinosaur's skeleton, and paleontologists suspect even more bones are lurking underground ...
Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. Between about 120 million and 130 million years ago, during the ...
Lucia Suarez Sang is an associate managing editor at CBSNews.com. Previously, Lucia was the director of digital content at FOX61 News in Connecticut and has previously written for outlets including ...
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