Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

In the history of Earth, we have documented five major extinctions—cataclysmic events in which the majority of species die out due to some worldwide change—and are currently edging towards the sixth ...

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience community and the public. Among them, the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME ...

"How ecosystems recover from mass extinctions is a huge question for the field at the moment, given that we're pushing towards one right now." 'Extremely statistically unlikely' In the history of ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

Throughout Earth’s history, there have been several global extinction events, wiping out large portions of life across the planet. From the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs to earlier ...

Cutting-edge digital fossil-mining reveals early squid evolution, diversification, and importance in marine ecosystems.

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

A state-of-the-art fossil discovery technique shows that squids originated and quickly rose to become dominant predators in ...

On The Beach is set for release on June 26th, and fans are only just realising one popular character is played by a titan in ...