Well-preserved fossils reveal that even the most colossal of pterosaurs were capable of flight, and various species had ...

Learn about the time period that took place 65 to 23 million years ago. 3 min read At the dawn of the Paleogene—the beginning of the Cenozoic era—dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine ...

Termed the Cretaceous-Paleogene (also called the K-T and K-P) boundary, the post-impact Earth changed. As the asteroid or comet struck Earth, it vaporized some of the planet’s bedrock ...

The asteroid impact in Mexico left deposits similar to those made by other asteroids from the outer solar system.

Asteroid hunter Jacqueline Fazekas started the evening of Sept. 4, 2024, much like she spends half of every lunar month: ...

About 252 million years ago, extreme El Niño ocean warming events were a major driver of the largest mass extinction in our ...

Scientists investigating the asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs after slamming into the Earth 66 million years ago have ...

These findings are all based on samples of sediment taken from a time period between the Cretaceous and Paleogene eras, which is right around the time of the asteroid's catastrophic impact.

Fossil evidence suggests that the snake lived approximately 60 million years ago, during the early part of the Paleogene period. The ancient mosasaur, a giant marine lizard, was a formidable ...

Darkling beetles have undergone rapid evolutionary changes over 150 million years, allowing them to adapt to diverse ...

Still, the fossils could represent an early appearance of these larval traits, perhaps as part of the explosion of spiny-rayed fish diversity after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction roughly ...

The strike left a layer of debris across the planet, marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods. The team took samples from this layer and then compared them to sediments at ...