So many extinction-level events happened in ancient times, it is a wonder anything survived. These the ones that killed the ...

Ancient volcanic winters, not just carbon dioxide warming, likely triggered the end-Triassic extinction when dinosaurs rose ...

Imagine a world before dinosaurs, where the land was ruled by toothy predators with a terrifying bite. Long before the famous ...

"If Pangea had never broken apart, the distribution of life and climates on Earth would be vastly different." ...

New research reveals that shifts in plant life played a key role in speeding up major climate changes during the late Miocene ...

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Between 252 and 66 million years ago, the ocean underwent a revolution. That's when plankton with calcium carbonate skeletons ...

Beneath the towering Guadalupe Mountains of Texas lies a dramatic story of transformation. Once part of an ancient sea, the ...

As the Permian period drew to a close, many top predators in southern regions went extinct. Inostrancevia appears to have migrated southward to occupy these vacant ecological roles. This rapid ...