Rather than a constant upward trajectory of evolution, it’s been billions of years of boom-and-bust cycles – first an explosion of life, and then a mass extinction of all but the most hardy hangers-on ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

The curious minds at What If show how living in the Cambrian period would result in a swift demise. Gov. Whitmer Responds as Trump Considers Kidnap Plot Pardon Ancient DNA reveals how Mayan ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago.

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium – or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction. This event is widely recognized as the most severe ...

News Release 12-Mar-2025 China discovers terrestrial "Life oasis" from end-Permian mass extinction period Peer-Reviewed Publication Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters image: ...

Tectonic processes could have triggered past mass extinctions, said PSI Senior Scientist John Goodge, a co-author of a new paper showing a tectonic trigger to the first Paleozoic extinction event on ...