Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. What happened next, in the direct aftermath ...
The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...
Waves of extinction have ripped through life on Earth over and over again during its long history. The non-avian dinosaurs ...
The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...
Just over 512 million years ago, Earth’s life was shaken by a major extinction event, yet fossil evidence reveals it persisted. A newly discovered fossil site in South China captures an entire marine ...
A single stone quarry in China’s Hunan province — roughly the footprint of a modest house — has yielded more than 50,000 fossils and rewritten our understanding of what happened after one of Earth’s ...