(Dawid Adam Iurino/PaleoFactory/Sapienza University of Rome) For the first 280 million years of animal life on Earth, ...

A new study from Purdue University is offering fresh insight into how the asteroid impact that ended the age of the ...

Byssal threads bind a colony of mussels together — they’re gregarious animals and often grow in dense clusters. That tendency ...

As pitched by Babak Hodjat, Cognizant’s Chief AI Officer, TerraLingua is a public research platform to allow agents to operate fully autonomously over a long stretch of time, so that anyone can ...

It struck the seas off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula with the force of billions of atomic bombs, carving out the 112-mile-wide Chicxulub crater. The asteroid vaporized almost instantly.

Five Extinctions, Zero Redesigns The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs 66 million years ago killed roughly 75 percent of all ...

Dragonflies and damselflies have been flying across Earth for more than 200 million years. They appeared long before the ...

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event, marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods approximately 66 million years ago, stands as one of the most profound ...

New research suggests fine dust trapped heat from falling debris, producing a deadly pulse that could have ignited forests around the world.

Bird flu could decimate everything from pelicans and ibises to penguins and quolls, a horrifying risk analysis shows.

Based on computer simulations and geologic evidence, scientists propose that the deadly event may have caused global ...

Scientists have discovered a fossil in China of a long-necked marine reptile from 245 million years ago that is so well ...