Asteroid impact, not volcanism, caused the end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction

Microbial life in the nascent Chicxulub crater

(2020) Bettina Schaefer et al.   GEOLOGY

On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

(2020) Pincelli M. Hull et al.   SCIENCE

Standards for distribution models in biodiversity assessments

(2019) Miguel B. Araújo et al.   Science Advances

Ecological niche modelling does not support climatically-driven dinosaur diversity decline before the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction

(2019) Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza et al.   Nature Communications

The eruptive tempo of Deccan volcanism in relation to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

(2019) Courtney J. Sprain et al.   SCIENCE

U-Pb constraints on pulsed eruption of the Deccan Traps across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

(2019) Blair Schoene et al.   SCIENCE

Climate sensitivity on geological timescales controlled by non‐linear feedbacks and ocean circulation

(2019) A. Farnsworth et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The Stratigraphy of Mass Extinctions and Recoveries

(2019) Steven M. Holland   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Rapid ocean acidification and protracted Earth system recovery followed the end-Cretaceous Chicxulub impact

(2019) Michael J. Henehan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction

(2019) T. R. Lyson et al.   SCIENCE

Type‐Maastrichtian gastropod faunas show rapid ecosystem recovery following the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary catastrophe

(2019) Johan Vellekoop et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Clinal variation in avian body size is better explained by summer maximum temperatures during development than by cold winter temperatures

(2018) Samuel C. Andrew et al.   AUK

Early Evolution of Modern Birds Structured by Global Forest Collapse at the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction

(2018) Daniel J. Field et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Deccan volcanism induced high-stress environment during the Cretaceous–Paleogene transition at Zumaia, Spain: Evidence from magnetic, mineralogical and biostratigraphic records

(2018) Eric Font et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Lepidosaurian diversity in the Mesozoic–Palaeogene: the potential roles of sampling biases and environmental drivers

(2018) Terri J. Cleary et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

(2018) Christopher M. Lowery et al.   NATURE

End-Permian extinction amplified by plume-induced release of recycled lithospheric volatiles

(2018) Michael W. Broadley et al.   Nature Geoscience

Changes in temperature alter the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2018) Francisca C. García et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global warming and ocean stratification: A potential result of large extraterrestrial impacts

(2017) Manoj Joshi et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Baby, it's cold outside: Climate model simulations of the effects of the asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous

(2017) Julia Brugger et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Quantifying the Release of Climate-Active Gases by Large Meteorite Impacts With a Case Study of Chicxulub

(2017) Natalia Artemieva et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Modeling climatic effects of carbon dioxide emissions from Deccan Traps volcanic eruptions around the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary

(2017) Thomas S. Tobin et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

On transient climate change at the Cretaceous−Paleogene boundary due to atmospheric soot injections

(2017) Charles G. Bardeen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years

(2017) Gavin L. Foster et al.   Nature Communications

Severe extinction and rapid recovery of mammals across the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary, and the effects of rarity on patterns of extinction and recovery

(2016) N. R. Longrich et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Eutherians experienced elevated evolutionary rates in the immediate aftermath of the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction

(2016) Thomas John Dixon Halliday et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Stratospheric aerosol-Observations, processes, and impact on climate

(2016) Stefanie Kremser et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Macrofossil evidence for a rapid and severe Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction in Antarctica

(2016) James D. Witts et al.   Nature Communications

Global climate change driven by soot at the K-Pg boundary as the cause of the mass extinction

(2016) Kunio Kaiho et al.   Scientific Reports

Large reptiles and cold temperatures: Do extreme cold spells set distributional limits for tropical reptiles in Florida?

(2016) Frank J. Mazzotti et al.   Ecosphere

Selective environmental stress from sulphur emitted by continental flood basalt eruptions

(2015) Anja Schmidt et al.   Nature Geoscience

Atmospheric and oceanic impacts of Antarctic glaciation across the Eocene–Oligocene transition

(2015) A. T. Kennedy et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Biogeography of worm lizards (Amphisbaenia) driven by end-Cretaceous mass extinction

(2015) N. R. Longrich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The extinction of the dinosaurs

(2014) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Rapid short-term cooling following the Chicxulub impact at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

(2014) J. Vellekoop et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The impacts of climate change on ecosystem structure and function

(2013) Nancy B Grimm et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post-K-Pg Radiation of Placentals

(2013) M. A. O'Leary et al.   SCIENCE

Time Scales of Critical Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

(2013) P. R. Renne et al.   SCIENCE

Geobiological constraints on Earth system sensitivity to CO2 during the Cretaceous and Cenozoic

(2012) D. L. ROYER et al.   Geobiology

Late Cretaceous restructuring of terrestrial communities facilitated the end-Cretaceous mass extinction in North America

(2012) J. S. Mitchell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mass extinction of lizards and snakes at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

(2012) N. R. Longrich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Enhanced chemistry-climate feedbacks in past greenhouse worlds

(2011) D. J. Beerling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary

(2011) N. R. Longrich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A statistical explanation of MaxEnt for ecologists

(2010) Jane Elith et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Response--Cretaceous Extinctions

(2010) P. Schulte et al.   SCIENCE

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

(2010) P. Schulte et al.   SCIENCE

Cretaceous Extinctions: Multiple Causes

(2010) J. D. Archibald et al.   SCIENCE

BIOMOD - a platform for ensemble forecasting of species distributions

(2009) Wilfried Thuiller et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Determination of rapid Deccan eruptions across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary using paleomagnetic secular variation: 2. Constraints from analysis of eight new sections and synthesis for a 3500-m-thick composite section

(2009) Anne-Lise Chenet et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH