A doomsday scenario? NASA is tracking an asteroid that has a non-zero chance of striking Earth. We have some time to prepare, ...

the K-T extinction event. Named after the boundary between the Cretaceous (K) and Paleogene (Tertiary) periods, this extinction event led to the eradication of about 75% of Earth’s species, including ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous ... extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ancestors of today's waterfowl, surviving that mass extinction event ...

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. Sixty-six ...

Birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event. Antarctica, far from the Chicxulub asteroid’s impact site off the current coast of Mexico’s Yucatán ...

The 68 million-year-old fossil belongs to an extinct species of bird known as Vegavis iaai that lived at the end of the Cretaceous period ... the dinosaurs to extinction. Birds that lived among ...

all of which provide critical insight into life before and after the extinction event. This makes Stevns Klint one of the most important locations for understanding the end-Cretaceous extinction ...