In the end, over 90 per cent of marine life and 70 per cent of land animals were wiped out in the single worst extinction ...

Physicists have solved a long-standing puzzle about mercury’s nuclear fission by using a five-dimensional model that ...

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...

The Pac-12 Conference is clawing back from near extinction, adding Texas State as its eighth football-playing member. Six ...

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

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 ...

Earth's history is marked by devastating mass extinctions, each one reshaping life as we know it. Now, experts warn that ...

New fossil evidence shows that South America’s extinct mastodons were vital seed dispersers, and their loss still haunts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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