Scientists discovered that volcanic eruptions in India’s Deccan Traps 66 million years ago released gases that altered Earth’s climate.

In the Late Cretaceous, for example, the Western Interior Seaway split ... It was caused by a large asteroid crash-landing off the coast of Mexico, which changed the climate of the planet dramatically ...

After a temperature spike in the mid-Cretaceous, the climate began to cool, and the tenor changed. Other creatures, such as frogs, salamanders, turtles, crocodiles, and snakes, proliferated on the ...

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of ...