Massive volcanic eruptions did not cause the extinction of dinosaurs, according to a new study. Volcanoes on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an almost nine-mile-wide meteor crashed into Earth and triggered a mass extinction of dinosaurs. But what if that’s not the whole story? A series of enormous volcanic ...

The mass extinction that wiped out nearly all life on Earth just before the dinosaurs evolved may have been caused by a global temperature drop rather than a rapidly warming climate. The End Triassic ...

After years of detective work, University geosciences professor Gerta Keller and her colleagues have found that an intensive period of volcanic eruptions and a series of asteroid impacts likely ended ...

For his work on the hydrogen bubble chamber and the identification of resonance states (usually short-lived subatomic particles) Luis Alvarez had served as administrator to a large staff using the ...

The discovery of what could be the youngest fossil of a dinosaur to date--from a period notorious for being free of their remains--has reignited a clash among paleontologists about what caused the ...

Did dinosaurs lose their dominance suddenly or gradually? Some scientists think the answer lies locked within the remnants of long-dormant volcanoes. Massive beds of ancient lava found around the ...

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