Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the ...

The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

A team of researchers working in China’s Hunan province has unearthed more than 50,000 fossil specimens from one small quarry, identifying 91 previously unknown species that lived approximately 512 ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Earth has a long and dramatic history, and one recurring theme is extinction. Did you know that over the last 500 million years, our planet experienced five major mass extinction events? These events ...

Humans have been shaping their environment since time immemorial. From cities to farms to highways, our impact has grown so large that we've pushed planetary boundaries, fueling concerns about climate ...

Ancient sea organisms survived until a sudden extinction 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass extinction.

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 ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive asteroid or powerful volcanic eruptions. But now, researchers from Dartmouth ...