When considering mass extinctions, people often think of the asteroid strike that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. But life on Earth has experienced many extinction events. Now, a trove of fossils ...

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

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

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

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...

The Earth has suffered five mass extinctions. Human activities are now accelerating climate change and the threat of the "Sixth Mass Extinction". We analyze the past to consider what we should do.

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

A fire-bellied newt (Cynops ensicauda) on Amami Island in Japan. Previously thought to be extinct, the newt and others in its genera are still alive. (John J. Wiens/University of Arizona) (CN) — For ...

Mass extinction events represent intervals of abrupt, large‐scale loss of biodiversity that have repeatedly reshaped life on Earth. These crises are commonly linked to dramatic environmental ...

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

Scientists discovered well-preserved marine fossils in southern China, uncovering a thriving deep-water ecosystem after a ...