Volcanic activity in India altered the climate but didn't kill the dinosaurs; the Chicxulub meteorite did, by triggering an ...

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While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted.

The Chicxulub meteorite impact, rather than volcanic activity, was the principal driver behind the extinction of the ...

An asteroid or comet struck near Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, forming the 110-mile (180-kilometer) wide Chicxulub crater. This event likely triggered an impact winter ...

The origin of mammals is shrouded in mystery, but every fossil clue helps rewrite the story. A new discovery on a Mediterranean island is challenging what we know about when—and where—mammal ancestors ...

Related: Earth vulnerable to major asteroid strike, White House science chief says The larger of the two asteroids, which was still smaller than the Chicxulub impactor that wiped most dinosaurs ...

A 10-story asteroid, 2024 XN1, traveling at 14,743 mph, will skim Earth on Dec 24. Though harmless, it highlights space ...

Asteroid impacts have changed Earth’s landscape time and time again. Some impacts caused great change to occur, like the Chicxulub Impactor, which led to the mass extinction of dinosaurs around 65 ...

Evolution is often depicted as a steady forward march from simple to complex forms. But new research shows that certain ferns can evolve “backward” ...

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