An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one ...

During mass extinction events or periods that were particularly warm, the role of coastline geometry in extinction risk was ...

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

Scientists have long treated mass extinctions as events locked deep in the fossil record. That framing now feels less distant. New research points to patterns that resemble earlier biological ...

A scientist credited with uncovering reasons for mass species extinctions hundreds of millions of years ago has been awarded ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

A pair of 'Sacabambaspis' fish, around 14 inches (35 centimeters) in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an ...

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research.During the final stages of a ...

Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...