Our planet is no stranger to changes. Ever since the world was formed more than four billion years ago, it has seen a number ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

The Canadian government says it is taking steps this summer to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions ...

The event in question is the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, also known as the “Great Dying,” which occurred around 252 ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

NASA has spotted something that It was never seen in decades exploring the outer space. At the center of the galaxy, a ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...