When considering mass extinctions, people often think of the asteroid strike that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. But life ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

The new Huayuan biota provides a 'unique window' into the Sinsk mass extinction event.

Jan 28 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than ...

Over 150 years ago, a fossilized organism known as Prototaxites emerged as an enigma regarding what early land life may have been like. As an organism that appeared to grow up through Earth’s crust in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Stewart Edie, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) About 66 million years ago – ...

NANJING -- Scientists in China have unearthed a treasure trove of ancient fossils that is helping to rewrite the story of one ...

Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one of Earth’s largest mass extinctions.