A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

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

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign. Their abrupt extinction reshaped Earth’s ecosystems and set the stage for mammals ...

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

About 66 million years ago – perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May – an asteroid smashed into our planet. Even groups that weathered the catastrophe, such as mammals, fishes and flowering plants, ...

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...

Little is known about why the woolly rhinoceros went extinct around 14,000 years ago. Scientists have found clues in an unusual source: the frozen remains of an ice age wolf.

Researchers found remains of a thriving marine community that existed at the beginning of the Dinosaur Age in the Arctic ...

More than 250 million years ago, life on Earth faced its most devastating crisis — a global event so severe that it wiped out nearly three-quarters of life on land and an even larger share in the ...

About 66 million years ago—perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May—an asteroid smashed into our planet. The fallout was immediate and severe. Evidence shows that about 70% of species went extinct in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Stewart Edie, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) About 66 million years ago – ...