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

With surprising and mysterious regularity, life on Earth has flourished and vanished in cycles of mass extinction every 62 million years, say two scientists who discovered the pattern after a ...

Earth’s history has always been a story told through the fossilized remains of long-extinct creatures. For centuries, scientists have used these remnants to piece together the planet’s geological ...

The Triassic–Jurassic transition represents one of Earth’s most profound episodes of biological upheaval, characterised by extensive volcanic activity, rapid climatic shifts and cascading ...