Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

It's safe to say that most of us are familiar with the concept of mass extinction. But this is by no means a recent phenomenon. For millions of years, Earth has been through extinction events that ...

About 74,000 years ago, the Earth experienced an event so immense that some scientists believe it nearly wiped out our species. This event is known as the Toba catastrophe, named after Lake Toba on ...

These remarkable arthropods have survived all five major mass extinctions, including the devastating Permian-Triassic extinction that wiped out approximately 96% of marine species. Despite their name, ...

So then, what killed the dinosaurs in such a sudden fashion? Whatever it was, it also destroyed 75 percent of all plants and animals on the planet. Willgard/Pixabay After walking the Earth for 165 ...

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying reptile, that reveal a time of transition when venerable lineages that were ...

LONDON (AP) — Conservative politician Norman Tebbit, a key ally of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in her free-market transformation of Britain, has died at the age of 94, his family said ...

The huge climate changes back then occurred during the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction – sometimes referred to as the "Great Dying," which happened around 252 million years ago, leading to ...

In an era of mass production and disposable goods, there’s something revolutionary about spaces that celebrate the unique, the handmade, and the previously loved. The treasures found here aren’t just ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.  ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using ...

In the study, "Night lizards survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction near the asteroid impact," published in Biology Letters, researchers combined phylogenetic tip-dating with ...