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, ...

It's safe to say that most of us are familiar with the concept of mass extinction. But this is by no means a recent ...

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

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

The cataclysmic asteroid Chicxulub hit the Earth with a catastrophic impact, it obliterated the biggest and heaviest living ...

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 ...