Everyone knows about the meteor that ended the age of dinosaurs - except that it wasn’t the biggest extinction event. Long ...

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 ...

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even contribute to mass extinction events. Now, a new study has found evidence of a ...

Iridium is relatively rare in Earth's crust but is more abundant in stony meteorites, which led the Alvarezs to conclude that the mass extinction was caused by an extraterrestrial object.

New research from the University of California, Davis, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Texas A&M University reveals that massive emissions, or burps, of carbon dioxide from natural earth systems ...

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 ...

Ever since the first fragments of pterosaur bone surfaced nearly 250 years ago , palaeontologists have puzzled over one ...

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.

The Sculptor galaxy is similar in many respects to our Milky Way. It is about the same size and mass, with a similar spiral structure. But while it is impossible to get a full view of the Milky Way ...

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On a walk through the Welsh countryside, I travelled through 4.6 billion years of Earth history – and you can too ...

New images from ESA's Biomass satellite reveal forests, volcanoes, deserts and glaciers in striking detail, hinting at what's still to come.