Articles for tag: Dinosaur Extinction, Earth Science, Fossil History, Mass Extinctions, Prehistoric Life

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Earth’s 5 Mass Extinctions – and the Fossils That Tell the Tale

Suhail Ahmed

Five times, Earth’s living world nearly blinked out – and each time, the rocks kept score. In cliffs, quarries, and microscope slides, paleontologists read the scars of lost oceans, smothered forests, and skies turned strange. The mystery is no longer whether these collapses happened, but how we decoded them, and what those clues say about ...

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Tiny Lizards Survived the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs

Jan Otte

The dinosaurs died when a huge asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. It caused firestorms, tsunamis, and a devastating “nuclear winter.” But, despite all chances, a population of little lizards barely bigger than a human finger lived near ground zero. These tough animals, called night lizards (family Xantusiidae), not only survived the disaster but ...