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

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

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

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

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

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...

Prof John Marshall has made 19 expeditions to Greenland and Norway over 30 years.

Almost all life on land and in the ocean was wiped out during "The Great Dying," a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests that the Great ...

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

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

East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...