Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass ...

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

Tim Coulson, a professor at Oxford University, has dedicated years to researching how life evolves. He thinks that if we vanished, it would create space for ...

Sea turtles survived asteroids, volcanoes, and multiple mass extinctions. What they didn’t evolve for was streetlights. Baby turtles are hard-wired to crawl toward the brightest light — once the moon ...

Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Contributed by Kea Giles, Managing Editor, GeologyBoulder, Colo., USA: Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's ...

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.

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

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...