Fossil evidence from the Denver Basin indicates a significant fungal bloom after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has ...

An artificial-intelligence model trained on nearly four million fossils suggests that three of the extinction events might ...

Earth has a flair for dramatic resets, though it usually takes millions of years to deliver them. Over its long history, life ...

According to a recently published study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, researchers dated zircon crystals from the site and found that the Ames crater likely formed about 370 ...

New uranium-lead dating of zircons from Oklahoma’s buried Ames impact structure points to a Late Devonian age near 370 million years, roughly 100 million years younger than its traditional Ordovician ...

The world is facing the threat of the sixth mass extinction of species, and this process is not slowing down. Camila Jardim, ...

Around 252 million years ago, the world suddenly heated up. Over a geologically brief period of tens of thousands of years, 90% of species were wiped out. Even insects, which are rarely touched by ...

Learn more about how the surprising survival of marine ecosystems after the last mass extinction can help us better prepare for the next one. Earth has experienced five documented mass extinctions to ...

The greatest mass extinction of all time was triggered by climatic conditions that are beginning to reappear today, scientists warn. The small, plant-eating Lystrosaurus thrived post-extinction, while ...

A RUDN University mathematician and a colleague developed a theoretical model of mass extinction. The model for the first time took into account two important factors—the inverse effect of vegetation ...

(CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of species from ...