A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event.... How did these species survive mass extinction events?

Italian limestone collected from the Mercato San Severino section in southern Italy contains molecular traces of ancient oceanic chemistry. An analysis of these rocks helps explain how early Jurrasic ...

The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) at ~2.4–2.3 Ga and the Neoproterozoic Oxidation Event (NOE) at ~0.8–0.54 Ga, were transformative events that catalyzed the development of global geological, geochemical ...

The end-Triassic extinction is often overshadowed by the disaster that killed the dinosaurs, but on its own it ranks among the worst biological crises in Earth’s history. Around 201 million years ago, ...

couple of Brachiosaurus altithorax and a flock of Pterosaurs in a scenic Late Jurassic landscape© dottedhippo/iStock via Getty Images The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological ...

Asteroid impacts and volcanism have led to mass extinctions on our planet. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / NASA / Public Domain Life’s first major catastrophe crept across the planet with the ...

Last year, hiking in Morocco’s eastern Atlas Mountains, I found an ammonite, a fossil of those spiral-shape cephalopods that to many symbolize paleontology itself. The fossilization process had turned ...

What is a mass extinction – and how many of them have there been? Will Newton takes a look the 'big five' extinction events ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alaska rock records show ocean deoxygenation began nearly 8 million years before the end-Triassic mass extinction. (CREDIT: ...