A rare fossil discovered near South America's largest known meteorite crater has been named a new species. Initially mistaken ...

(Dawid Adam Iurino/PaleoFactory/Sapienza University of Rome) For the first 280 million years of animal life on Earth, ...

Mass extinction events are defined by a 75% loss in total species. These events can take tens of thousands to several million years. Experts are alarmed at today's "unprecedented" population abundance ...

At first glance, Earth's biggest geological disasters seem to have little in common beyond their sheer scale. But for decades ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research. During the final stages in the ...

A new study reveals metabolism's role in Earth's greatest marine extinction event. Organisms' oxygen use and energy generation dictated survival during this ancient crisis. Warming oceans and ...

An international team of paleontologists has spent more than 15 years excavating and studying fossils from Africa to expand our understanding of the Permian, a period of Earth's history that began 299 ...

Stay calm, doomsday preppers. We (probably) won’t be around to see it.

Life on Earth took a long evolutionary journey that eventually created us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates the planet. But there was no grand plan or design, only happenstance, ...

A new study from Purdue University is offering fresh insight into how the asteroid impact that ended the age of the ...

It struck the seas off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula with the force of billions of atomic bombs, carving out the 112-mile-wide Chicxulub crater. The asteroid vaporized almost instantly.