An international team of paleontologists has spent more than 15 years excavating and studying fossils from Africa to expand ...

The Earth’s first mass extinction was a catastrophic event that nearly wiped out all life, but against all odds, life on ...

Delve into Earth's first mass extinction event and explore the remarkable recovery of life after this catastrophic event. The ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago triggered the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, which wiped out the dinosaurs, along ...

A new study shows night lizards lived around the Gulf of Mexico before and after the asteroid impact that ended the dinosaurs ...

After Earth’s greatest extinction, it wasn’t just volcanic fury that kept the planet hot; it was the death of tropical forests that turned off the planet’s cooling system, leading to millions of years ...

A new study reveals that ocean acidification, triggered by a massive carbon dioxide surge from volcanic activity during the ...

By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered ...

Mass extinctions are violent evolutionary filters which wipe out species indiscriminately. Yet, sharks somehow keep making it through. Earth’s five mass extinction events ...