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

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.

Earth's mass extinctions and other disasters could be following a pattern. A scientist has claimed that Earth's orbit, ...

250 million years ago, catastrophic volcanic eruptions plunged Earth’s oceans into a toxic, oxygen-starved crisis that erased ...

Clams and snails rule today’s shores because their ancient ancestors survived a catastrophe that erased nearly all ocean life. The shells scattered along modern beaches are clues to an ancient ...

A Stanford-led study has provided the strongest evidence yet that warming oceans and declining oxygen levels caused Earth's largest mass extinction around 252 million years ago. The research explains ...

A new study suggests the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also created a global dust cloud that trapped heat, turning ...

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the “sixth mass extinction” – the first to be caused by human activities. Five earlier mass extinctions, caused by dramatic but ...

This video looks at the deadliest disasters in human and planetary history, from famines and plagues to asteroid impacts, ...

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

A new study reveals metabolism's role in Earth's greatest marine extinction event. Organisms' oxygen use and energy generation dictated survival during this ancient crisis. Warming oceans and ...