Explore the dramatic history of our planet's five major extinction events and learn how these natural disasters have fundamentally shaped the evolution of life as we know it today.

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s history ...

Earth’s history stretches back more than 4.5 billion years, and much of it was far more extreme than it appears today. The planet has gone through violent shifts, from massive volcanic activity to ...

On one of the final days of 1938, a fishing trawler off the coast of South Africa reeled in a massive creature unlike anything the crew had seen before. It was nearly five feet in length, and its fins ...

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Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

The small, plant-eating Lystrosaurus thrived post-extinction, while its predators suffocated to death. Its eggs played a ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, ...