A new study finds that one of the hottest periods in Earth's history may have driven lampreys apart -- genetically speaking. The work could have implications for how aquatic species respond to our ...

Imagine a great, green rainforest thriving inside the icy land that exists today. It might sound like science fiction, but research shows that Antarct.

Climate can change fast, even when the planet looks stable. Earth has flipped into new patterns within decades in the past.

In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that era remain and continue to give scientists clues ...

The Cretaceous Period, spanning approximately 145 to 66 million years ago, represents a critical era in Earth’s history when greenhouse conditions, dynamic plate tectonics, and widespread volcanic ...

An international team of researchers, with the participation of micropalaeontologists from the University of Zaragoza and the University of the Basque Country (EHU), has demonstrated in Nature ...

In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that era remain and continue to give scientists clues ...