Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...

Human activity has accelerated extinction rates, raising concerns that we may be entering a sixth mass extinction.

In a new study in Geology, researchers calculated how long it took for novel single-celled marine species to appear after the asteroid impact, and it’s surprisingly fast.

Musk spends billions on X to turn it into a far right platform waging war on Muslims and refugees - a distraction from the ...

The impact of the asteroid in present-day Yucatan wiped out almost all life on Earth. It recovered faster than previously ...

Sixty-six million years ago, the dinosaurs had a really bad day when a colossal asteroid impact spurred their extinction. But ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

Dr Claire Browning has led an international team of scientists to uncover fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped ...

During mass extinction events or periods that were particularly warm, the role of coastline geometry in extinction risk was ...

A groundbreaking new study using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) has revealed that the asteroid strike that wiped out ...