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

Study by UChicago, Smithsonian, UK Natural History Museum challenges assumptions about survival after global catastrophe ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

There was likely not a single definitive cause of this period of mass extinctions, but oxygen levels in the ocean continually dropped at this time. A combination of several major stresses ...

Woolly mammoths, Tasmanian tigers, not-really-dire wolves – increasingly, genomics has revealed itself as a major potential ...

When a major cyclone tears through an island nation, all efforts rightly focus on saving human lives and restoring ...

Once again, sea creatures took the biggest hit. Theories point to rising and falling sea levels, climate change, or even asteroid impacts. One idea suggests that expanding plant life on land may ...

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Their ancestors have survived two mass extinctions over 230 million years and scientists have uncovered a new secret to their evolutionary success and longevity. The prehistoric relics are ...