Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...

BALTIMORE — In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the ...

Waves of extinction have ripped through life on Earth over and over again during its long history. The non-avian dinosaurs were the last to feel the burn, 66 million years ago, but there have been ...

A 230-million-year-old fossilized beetle has been discovered in China that could rewrite the history of its evolution.

Learn how a flip in Earth's magnetic field may have caused changes in the radiation on our planet.

Researchers have uncovered new evidence that short-lived spikes in ocean phosphorus may have played a major role in two of the most severe marine extinctions in Earth's history. Dr. Matthew Dodd from ...

Pre-extinction tropical rainforest seed fern, Gigantopteris, (giant leaves). Credit: Dr Zhen Xu. The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary ...

A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today's South Africa. In less than a ...

Nowadays, we're pretty confident about how the dinosaurs died out, but there are still other extinctions throughout Earth's ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The persistence of life on Earth may depend on massive explosions on the other side of the galaxy ...