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.

Studies looking at how sponges have evolved on a molecular level have suggested that spicules should be present over 700 ...

Levels of molybdenum in soil show that hydrogen sulfide gas wiped out nearly half of all marine life 530 million years ago.

T.rex lived longer and took more time to reach its maximum size than previously thought, according to new research.

Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one ...

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

Devil’s Den State Park in West Fork stands as a testament to nature’s artistic abilities, a 2,500-acre canvas painted with emerald waters, ancient caves, and forests that change their wardrobe with ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

A devastating ice age wiped out most marine life, yet new research reveals how this ancient disaster unexpectedly paved the ...

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.