You can read the complete story on the Nature site here.
It will be interesting to see what the ID lobby makes of this or indeed the anti-evolution movement.

The once westward roll of what is now the world’s largest river was caused by a long-gone highland near what today is the river’s mouth. That highland was created by the breaking away of South America from Africa and the creation of the Atlantic Ocean during the Cretaceous Period, 65 to 145 million years ago. [...]

The Chicxulub impact may, in fact, have been the lesser and earlier of a series of meteors and volcanic eruptions that pounded life on Earth for more than half a million years, according to Princeton’s Gerta Keller and her colleagues, Thierry Adatte from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, and Zsolt Berner and Doris Stueben from [...]

The research reveals vital clues about the mass extinction at the end of the Permian period, 250 million years ago, when mammal-like reptiles known as synapsids roamed the earth.

Many scientists had previously thought that an asteroid hitting the earth or a deep-sea methane release had caused the extinction, which obliterated more than two-thirds of reptile [...]