Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced ...

The mass extinction at the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods was catastrophic, wiping out much of life on ...

Researchers have uncovered new evidence that short-lived spikes in ocean phosphorus may have played a major role in two of the most severe marine extinctions in Earth's history. Dr. Matthew Dodd from ...

The scientific wonderers at What If recreate the most devastating biological collapses in our planet's history to see how ...

A mass extinction event is no longer a distant possibility, it’s already underway. Scientists warn that species are disappearing at rates up to 1,000 times faster than normal, with over a million now ...

Researchers have uncovered new evidence that short-lived spikes in ocean phosphorus may have played a major role in two of ...

The researchers coupled geochronology with previously published paleomagnetics and paleontological data of sediments ...

New research uncovers the significant role of Deccan Plateau volcanic eruptions towards the end of the Maastrichtian era in environmental toxicity that led to a mass extinction event 66 million years ...

A puzzling wrinkled rock formation in Morocco has led scientists to rethink where ancient microbes could live. Instead of ...

Learn how a new genomic study reveals that squid and cuttlefish survived a mass extinction in deep-sea refuges before rapidly ...

Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, a new study from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) combines ...