Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

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

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

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

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

Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.

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 ...

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 ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event.... How did these species survive mass extinction events?

Supernova destroying planet, illustration. A rocky planet lies in the wake of its star, which has just gone supernova. The explosion shatters the planet. A complete census of massive stars in our part ...

"I want it to be thought-provoking," says director Susanne Brandstaetter, about the IFFR-debuting film. "I want people to be ...