Ultimately, the extinction of humans "would reveal something about the way we treated the Earth," said Basmajian. "It would ...

Over the past two billion years, this supercontinent cycle has produced at least three major supercontinents: Columbia, Rodinia, and Pangea. Each one formed as landmasses gradually collided, only to ...

Earth's rich biodiversity, ranging from the depths of the oceans to the highest mountain peaks, has not always been as ...

Reconstruction of ocean pH finds rapid acidification of oceans caused by massive and sudden CO2 rise caused a mass extinction event 201 million years ago ...

Smithsonian researchers have linked discoveries within Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park with a previously unknown ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the University of Birmingham has discovered that a rapid acidification of oceans, ...

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

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

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and pterosaurs.