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An ancient crater beneath Ames, Oklahoma, is now believed to be nearly 100 million years younger than previously thought, potentially linking it to a major mass extinction event.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history. An analysis of the ...

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Learn more about how the surprising survival of marine ecosystems after the last mass extinction can help us better prepare for the next one. Earth has experienced five documented mass extinctions to ...

Research indicates that the Ames impact structure may have formed during the Late Devonian period. This finding challenges earlier beliefs connecting the structure to the Ordovician Meteor Event.

Supernova destroying planet, illustration. A rocky planet lies in the wake of its star, which has just gone supernova. The explosion shatters the planet. A complete census of massive stars in our part ...

A study suggests that the Ames impact crater was created around 370 million years ago and not 467 million years ago, as ...

The resulting extinction decimated animal groups, like archaeocyathids (reef-building marine sponges) and hyoliths (animals with small conical shells). "It's unusual to point to a tectonic cause for ...

According to a recently published study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, researchers dated zircon crystals from the site ...

Shortly after an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, life for non-avian dinosaurs ended, but the evolutionary story for the early ancestors of birds began. The fossil record tells us ...

Extinction is inevitable. Expected. Almost all (99%) species that have ever existed have died out. Those disappearances have largely occurred at consistent background rates. But in the context of mass ...