Not one but two magma plumes fuelled the Deccan Traps mass eruption around 65 million years ago, scientists have discovered. The eruptions, which lasted tens of thousands of years, are believed to ...

A definitive geological timeline shows that a series of massive volcanic explosions 66 million years ago played a role in the extinction event that claimed Earth's non-avian dinosaurs, and challenges ...

There’s a solid consensus among scientists about what happened to the dinosaurs 66 million years ago: A mountain-sized meteorite crashed into the planet and triggered a mass extinction. The debris ...

Which came first: the impact or the eruptions? That question is at the heart of two new studies in the Feb. 22 Science seeking to answer one of the most hotly debated questions in Earth’s geologic ...

Satellite image of the Deccan Traps, a large igneous province in India, which erupted around 66 million years ago in the southern hemisphere. The subsequent fast northward motion India moved the ...

Climate change triggered by massive volcanic eruptions may have ultimately set the stage for the dinosaur extinction, challenging the traditional narrative that a meteorite alone delivered the final ...

A new model has revealed that a mega volcano eruption drove the dinosaurs to extinction — not the infamous Chicxulub meteor that smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula over 66 million years ago.

India's Deccan Traps - one of the largest volcanic features on the Earth - may have formed due to eruptions from two distinct plumes, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Quebec in ...