When the KT extinction event took out 80% of life on Earth, it left open a wide variety of environments for the relatives of modern mammals to take over. Eventually, these mammals dominated the Earth ...

Who says the end of the world has to be a bad thing? The makers of the new Netflix documentary series Life on Our Planet have a surprisingly objective view of the violent, grueling, and sometimes slow ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to settle a row that ...

Some scientists challenge the meteor impact theory as the cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs. This program lays out the evidence and considers alternative explanations. The program also points ...