A wave of new research is forcing paleontologists to reconsider a basic question about life on Earth: when did the first mass ...

The first sea organisms suddenly vanished 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass extinction - The ...

Waves of extinction have ripped through life on Earth over and over again during its long history. The non-avian dinosaurs ...

UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the Ordovician Period, when global sea levels were much higher than today. In a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A limestone quarry in Hunan province, China, has yielded more than 150 species dating back approximately 512 million years — 91 of ...

A father-daughter duo, fossil hunting on a Somerset beach, found the jawbone of Ichthyotitan severnensis, a 25-metre sea ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

The last time Ryan Gosling blasted off into space was in the guise of Neil Armstrong heading for the moon in 2018’s First Man ...

Strange dinosaur species found with hundreds of stones in its throat named after funk band - Species named after techno-funk ...

Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across ...

One of the anticipated dangers from outer space is that a meteor could crash into earth, and cause mass extinction. It had ...