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.
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Scientists didn’t expect life to return this fast after Earth’s first mass extinction event
The new Huayuan biota provides a 'unique window' into the Sinsk mass extinction event.
The impact of the asteroid 66 million years ago did not stop life from returning to normal for very long. New research shows ...
Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass ...
Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.
At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign.
Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...
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 ...
The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...
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