Ancient sea organisms survived until a sudden extinction 550 million years ago, revealing what may be the first major mass extinction.

Lost fossils reveal that some of the first ocean predators went global astonishingly fast after Earth’s worst extinction.

Scientists have unearthed in southern China fossils of a multitude of marine creatures dating to more than a half billion years ago, showing a deep-water ecosystem thriving in the aftermath of the ...

Scientists say a Chinese fossil site offers the first major look at life after the Sinsk mass extinction.

The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers ...

Rapid changes in marine oxygen levels may have played a significant role in driving Earth's first mass extinction, according to a new study led by Florida State University researchers.

Learn how Triassic marine amphibian fossils from the Kimberley region in Australia reveal rapid global dispersal after the ...