Deep within a cave on New Zealand’s North Island, scientists have uncovered a long-lost record of life from a million years ago.

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The Chicxulub impact didn’t just kill the dinosaurs — it rewrote Earth’s future . A decade-long impact winter collapsed the food chain, poisoned the atmosphere, and wiped out 70% of species. And the ...

Warming is accelerating, threatening a cascade of tipping points that destabilize the climate. In a new paper, scientists say ...

An international research team led by Dr. Lorenzo Marchetti from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin has described the oldest known impressions of reptile skin from the Thuringian Forest in central ...

Around the Balkan Peninsula, the African plate is sinking beneath the European plate. A piece of deeply submerged African ...

Up to 50 percent of species—which included 12 bird species and 4 frog species—on Aotearoa’s North Island went extinct before ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the "Biological Big Bang." ...

Ancient magnetic fossils reveal that animal navigation using Earth’s magnetic field may have evolved far earlier than ...

Copper prices are under renewed pressure after satellite data showed 1.2 million tonnes of January smelter capacity outside China went idle.

Sediment records from the Andes suggest tropical land where millions live could heat up faster than expected as greenhouse gases rise.