An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

In a remarkable geological find in Italy, a delicate clay layer was uncovered, marked by unusually high levels of iridium—a rare element on our planet but frequently found in meteorites. This ...

What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? The first thing that might come to mind is a meteorite crashing into the Earth. Assistant Professor Honami Sato, a geology researcher at the Faculty of ...

A thin clay layer in Italy, discovered by a scientist and his geologist son, revealed an unusual iridium spike. This rare ...

Around 66 million years ago, Earth endured a mass extinction event that marked the end of the Cretaceous and the start of the Paleogene period. Roughly 75% of all species vanished, including every non ...

A thin layer of clay in Italy, unusually rich in iridium, revolutionized the understanding of dinosaur extinction. This rare element, abundant in meteorites, pointed to a massive extraterrestrial ...