Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, ...

Ancient lycophytes may have survived extreme heat during Earth’s worst extinction using a rare photosynthesis method.

Orff attended the University of Virginia to obtain her undergraduate degree in Political and Social Thought and wrote her ...

Mass extinction events are defined by a 75% loss in total species. These events can take tens of thousands to several million years. Experts are alarmed at today’s “unprecedented” population abundance ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s history ...

A research team at Memorial University has discovered that the first animal extinction event on Earth was even bigger than the meteor-impact that ended the age of dinosaurs. New data published in ...

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on Earth. Vertebrate groups that dominated at the time, such as dinosaurs and ...

How some creatures survived every mass extinction on Earth. Republicans react to Donald Trump's Iran war speech Ted Bundy linked to unsolved teen murder in 1974 with new DNA testing Dietitians say you ...

A single stone quarry in China’s Hunan province — roughly the footprint of a modest house — has yielded more than 50,000 fossils and rewritten our understanding of what happened after one of Earth’s ...

A limestone quarry in Hunan province, China, has yielded more than 150 species dating back approximately 512 million years — 91 of which have never been documented before — reshaping scientific ...