In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

A new study reveals that a major cooling event 34 million years ago caused staggered marine extinctions, not a single global ...

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the Great Dying – this was the most catastrophic of the five mass extinction events ...

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

A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species. It is usually not a short, one-time incident but rather something that occurs over thousands or millions ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research. The Permian–Triassic ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research. The Permian–Triassic ...

A research team at Memorial University has discovered that the first animal extinction event on Earth was even bigger than the meteor-impact that ended the age of dinosaurs. New data published in ...

Earth has never stood still. Over its 4.5 billion years of history, our planet has been reshaped by different cataclysms and climate shifts. The atmosphere went through several changes, oceans froze ...

We can’t sugar coat it, the future of our planet looks pretty bleak – at least according to new predictions from scientists. In fact, an experiment conducted by a supercomputer has suggested that ...

IGCP Project 216--"Global Events in Earth History." ...