Earth's largest mass extinction occurred about 252 million years ago, wiping out the majority of marine and terrestrial life, ...

Arctic fossils reveal the oldest known oceanic reptile ecosystem from the Age of Dinosaurs. Over 30,000 specimens show marine ...

5 mass extinctions wiped out 65–96% of species on Earth, with major events including the Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, ...

Scientists working on the Arctic archipelago’s largest island, Spitsbergen, uncovered a 249-million-year-old bonebed on the side of Mount Marmier. They estimate that it contains more than 30,000 ...

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

Rare fossils reveal that worms managed to survive multiple mass extinction events. A recent scientific investigation has ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass ...

Whether AI brings the “mass extinction event” or just a “rough patch in the middle,” as Biden suggests, still isn’t clear.

Just a few million years after the end-Permian mass extinction event (EPME), aquatic reptiles and other vertebrates had recovered to form thriving and ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction. New research suggests dinosaur populations were still ...

By Stephen Le Quesne THE slender-billed curlew is a beautiful, striking bird of the curlew family. They stand proud with ...