About 65 million years ago, a mass extinction event occurred, wiping out more than 75% of all species on Earth. There have only been 5 mass extinctions in our planet's 4.5 billion year history. But ...

Even when Earth was locked in its most extreme deep freeze, the planet’s climate may not have been as silent and still as once believed. New research from ancient Scottish rocks reveals that during ...

When the asteroid struck Earth 66 million years ago, the immediate destruction was only the beginning. Firestorms, global ...

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 ...

The catastrophic impact of an asteroid 66 million years ago brought death and devastation on Earth—but also fascinating new life.

Advanced CT imaging of rare Devonian lungfish fossils in Australia and China is revealing unexpected anatomical details.

People in poor countries often get little or no warning about floods, storms and other deadly weather. Local efforts are ...

Documents show the industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling's toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn't safe ...

People in poor countries often get little or no warning about floods, storms and other deadly weather. Local efforts are ...

“ Tyrannoroter is the earliest and most complete vertebrate land herbivore to show adaptations that could process high-fiber ...

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

Ancient rocks show Earth’s magnetic field followed deep heat patterns inside the planet for hundreds of millions of years.