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.
A University researcher found evidence that a new species evolved faster than previously thought after a mass extinction ...
Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...
Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...
The new Huayuan biota provides a 'unique window' into the Sinsk mass extinction event.
Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...
It had quite an impact — striking with the force of 10 million atomic bombs. Sixty-six million years ago, the asteroid that slammed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula caused a mass extinction ...
A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the dinosaurs. Rocks and fossils at the Naashoibito Member site show an ecosystem that was ...
TL;DR• A mass die-off of sea urchins in the Canary Islands has led to a halt in reproduction, pointing to possible local ...