Thomas Mulligan examines the extraordinary evolutionary traits and survival strategies that allowed resilient organisms to ...

A rare fossil discovered near South America's largest known meteorite crater has been named a new species. Initially mistaken ...

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

Approximately 66 million years ago, a colossal asteroid struck Earth, generating catastrophic global temperatures. As ...

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

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.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Metabolic differences may explain why clams survived the Great Dying while brachiopods and sea lilies suffered devastating losses.

Around 252 million years ago, Earth’s oceans became a lethal test of animal physiology. Nearly every marine species vanished, yet some groups survived well enough to dominate the seas ever since. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mold and cast of a clam fossil from a Devonian aged Coral reef against a black background.© Marieke Peche/Shutterstock.com The ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet’s biggest mass extinction while most animals did not. About 252 million years ago, 96% of marine ...