Five years ago, the economist Partha Dasgupta warned that business was self-cannibalising: consuming the natural systems it ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

A new study proposes a refined stratigraphic scheme for the Sanqushan Group, clarifying the Katian Zhe-Gan platform stratigraphy in South China. By ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles.

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

When it comes to mass extinctions, you probably imagine giant volcanic eruptions or asteroids raining fire from the sky, but ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, and shallow seas shrank fast.

Scientists discovered well-preserved marine fossils in southern China, uncovering a thriving deep-water ecosystem after a ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...