The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

Ancient sea organisms survived until a sudden extinction 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass ...

One reason for the decline in extinction rates is the growing momentum of conservation efforts. Multiple species have been ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass ...

Learn how Triassic marine amphibian fossils from the Kimberley region in Australia reveal rapid global dispersal after the ...

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion ...

The groups claim that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has failed to abide by restrictions on the harming, trapping or killing ...

Researchers studying the soft-bodied Ediacaran biotas of the world generally accept that there are three distinct assemblages ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

It’s also a process that has repeated throughout history. When we analysed 540 million years of fossil data for a recent ...