A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

A devastating ice age wiped out most marine life, yet new research reveals how this ancient disaster unexpectedly paved the ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

During a geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, drying out many of the vast, shallow ...

In a new Science Advances study, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have now proved that ...

Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...

The creature locals now call “Godzillus” did not roar out of a movie screen but out of Ordovician rock, lifted piece by piece ...

Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that ...

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...

Lila Maladesky's PhD project is funded by the European Research Council Humans like plants. We like seeing them change the colour of their leaves throughout the year. They connect us to nature even if ...