Darkness, not cold or acidification, was the main driver of marine extinctions after the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

Qreiya 3 is a remarkable fossil site which is providing scientists with an unprecedented glimpse into marine life. There is ...

An unexpected haul of nearly 500 fossilized fish in Egypt provides an unprecedented picture of how sea life rebounded from ...

Flowering plants survived Earth’s worst disasters, including the asteroid strike that ended the dinosaurs, while many others ...

About 66 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth in a very different environment than we see today, with some creatures demonstrating indomitable power, while others thrived in different ways.

Scientists studied ancient fungal spores and discovered Earth may already have been under stress before the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.

An artist's imagining of a saprotrophic fungus. (Juan Gaertner/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) In the wake of the ...

In a remarkable geological find in Italy, a delicate clay layer was uncovered, marked by unusually high levels of iridium—a rare element on our planet but frequently found in meteorites. This ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s history ...

A thin layer of clay in Italy, unusually rich in iridium, revolutionized the understanding of dinosaur extinction. This rare element, abundant in meteorites, pointed to a massive extraterrestrial ...