Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...

The impact of the asteroid 66 million years ago did not stop life from returning to normal for very long. New research shows ...

For decades, the asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has stood as a symbol of total planetary devastation. But hidden within the chaos it unleashed was the seed of a biological rebirth. In ...

New discoveries in archaeology, genetics, and geology are piling up and they do not fit the clean textbook story of slow human progress. Evidence points to sudden cataclysms, lost knowledge, and ...

Learn how the emergence of new plankton species started life's swift recovery after the asteroid impact that killed most ...

Numerous anti-heroes have racked up impressive body counts over the years, killing anyone they think will threaten the ...

There are so many koalas in some places that food is the issue – while elsewhere populations are threatened by habitat loss. And there are no easy fixes ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

A 512-million-year-old ecosystem, frozen in stone, reveals an explosive comeback after a mass extinction no one fully ...