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

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

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

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

Team Hot Wings, a local FIRST Robotics team, demonstrated their robot and talked about the program in front of the Jaffrey Historical Society, while preparing for their second qualifying match of the ...

Sometimes, creatures are so strange-looking that they compel us to do a double-take. This Instagram video shows active, ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

Levels of molybdenum in soil show that hydrogen sulfide gas wiped out nearly half of all marine life 530 million years ago.

Just over 512 million years ago, Earth’s life was shaken by a major extinction event, yet fossil evidence reveals it ...

Earth looked much different not just millions, but even decades and centuries ago. Many animal species that once existed are ...

Scientists prepared a high-quality sequence of the giant mammal’s genome based on a specimen preserved in Siberian permafrost.