For decades, scientists treated the end of Earth’s habitability as a problem for the far future, measured in several billion ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere faces a finite lifespan of about 1.08 billion years before a sharp decline, according to a ...

Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sharks might be the all time bullet-dodging champions. They’ve been around for about 450 million years, longer than trees, longer ...

The West Texas desert has a surprising feature: a prehistoric ocean reef. There is a surprising natural wonder in the middle of the vast West Texas desert: a prehistoric ocean reef built from the ...

Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...

Tim Coulson, a professor at Oxford University, has dedicated years to researching how life evolves. He thinks that if we vanished, it would create space for ...

NANJING -- Scientists in China have unearthed a treasure trove of ancient fossils that is helping to rewrite the story of one ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion known in the universe, may have triggered ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...