Ancient lycophytes may have survived extreme heat during Earth’s worst extinction using a rare photosynthesis method.

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, ...

Recent advancements in synchrotron-based micro-computed tomography (microCT) have enabled researchers to digitally ...

Human society has become an independent geological force, comparable in scale of impact with natural processes. This is the ...

Scientists studying a 250-million-year-old fossil say they can now say with confidence that our mammal ancestors laid eggs. The fossil, found in South Africa, belonged to an embryo of the Lystrosaurus ...

Scientists Found What May Be Earth's First Mass Extinction and It Was More Catastrophic Than Anyone Realized ...

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

A crushed skull reveals Ptychotherates bucculentus, a rare early dinosaur reshaping what we know about evolution before a ...

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice are having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers ...

There are columnists who only report bad news when their party is out of power. There are columnists who criticize what’s ...