Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's rendering of the Chicxulub asteroid entering Earth's atmosphere 66 million years ago, triggering events that caused a ...
When the asteroid’s aftermath turned Earth into fire and ash, cockroaches kept going. They could squeeze into tight spaces, survive on almost any scrap of food, and protect their young with tough egg ...
Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event.... How did these species survive mass extinction events?