FUKUI -- A Tohoku University-led team said it has found in Hokkaido a layer showing the asteroid impact linked to the ...
The asteroid impact that ended the age of dinosaurs released an unimaginable amount of energy in a matter of seconds. Some researchers have questioned whether debris from the blast could have been ...
A week after the asteroid impact, rotting vegetation, smoke and sulphur create a stinky planet. Plant and animal survivors ...
Most living organisms inherit two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent, but plants frequently undergo whole-genome duplication, in which their entire genetic code is copied. The process can ...
A team of Japanese researchers has discovered traces of an asteroid collision in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido that may have caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs at the end of the Cretace ...
The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...
Scientists have created a new map of "mega ripples" on the seafloor caused by the Chicxulub asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, revealing further the events that led to the devastating mass ...
A new study suggests that duplicated genomes gave some flowering plants the genetic flexibility needed to endure Earth’s ...
LAS CRUCES — A geology professor who joined the New Mexico State University faculty this year is the lead author of a new paper addressing a long-standing question about the extinction of dinosaurs.