Fifty thousand years ago, North America's landscapes were alive with an astonishing array of enormous creatures. Massive ...

The Cambrian explosion, long hailed as one of the most significant events in the history of life on Earth, has now been ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that Earth re ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...