A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

The event has been attributed to intense global warming triggered by a period of volcanic activity in Siberia, known as the ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Small and elusive night lizards probably persisted because they have slow metabolisms and like to hide out in rock crevices, ...

Yucatan's Chicxulub crater marks one of our universe's most momentous historical events: when an asteroid strike killed 75% ...

Crocodylomorphs endured both the fourth and fifth mass extinction events. The fourth mass extinction, the Triassic-Jurassic Extinction, occurred around 200 million years ago.

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

The night lizards may have been the only terrestrial vertebrates that survived in the region of the asteroid impact 66 ...

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...