Scientists debate whether current extinction rates mark a planet-wide crisis or reflect a more nuanced reality, highlighting ...
"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack Hatfield.
Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...
Guryul Ravine preserves invaluable 250-million-year-old fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event, offering insights ...
Discover the Guryul Ravine in Kashmir, a national geo-heritage site with fossil records of the Permian-Triassic mass ...
A fossil skull from a long-extinct animal captivated the public when it went on display at the South Australian Museum.
What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...
A razor-snouted marine reptile with dinner-skewer teeth, Xiphodracon goldencapensis, has been added to the ichthyosaur family ...
Local author Tim Weed's fascinating new book, "The Afterlife Project" is a work of speculative fiction that features a ...
For the first time, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs that lay buried in rock for millions of years, using a groundbreaking new ‘atomic clock for fossils’ method. During the Cretaceous period, Earth ...
Wiemann combines tools from chemistry, biology, and geology to explore ecological and evolutionary questions about life on ...