A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species. It is usually not a short, one-time incident but rather something that occurs over thousands or millions ...

Roughly 234 million years ago, Earth’s continents were fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it was on the ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

There might still be dinosaurs living on Earth today — if not for the giant asteroid. It’s a long-debated issue, but now researchers say the idea Dinosaurs were in decline before the Chicxulub ...

A pair of Sacabambaspis fish, around 35 cm in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an armored head. No fossils of animals like Sacabambaspis from after the Late Ordovician Mass ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...

In nature, extinction doesn’t arrive with a press release. It often begins quietly, with a subtle shift in the environment. A new predator enters the ecosystem. A virus mutates. A faster, leaner ...

The Silurian Period is characterised by a dynamic interplay between environmental stressors and biotic turnover, with extinction events and carbon isotope excursions (CIEs) representing pivotal ...