The impact of the asteroid in present-day Yucatan wiped out almost all life on Earth. It recovered faster than previously ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

In a new study in Geology, researchers calculated how long it took for novel single-celled marine species to appear after the asteroid impact, and it’s surprisingly fast.

For decades, the asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has stood as a symbol of total planetary devastation. But ...

Sixty-six million years ago, the dinosaurs had a really bad day when a colossal asteroid impact spurred their extinction. But ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

The dinosaur era spans millions of years, yet large parts of its story remain uncertain. Fossil evidence provides timelines and patterns, but many transitions are still debated among scientists. Key ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other ...

Climate change is no longer a distant or abstract threat to Sri Lanka’s biodiversity. It is already driving local extinctions ...