Paleobiologist Geerat Vermeij is enthralled with mollusks. Their shells line the surfaces and fill the cabinets and drawers in his office on the second floor of the Earth and Planetary Sciences ...

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

Now, fossils pulled from a single quarry in southern China are revealing what life looked like in the aftermath — and the discovery is rewriting what scientists know about one of the earliest chapters ...

The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With 50,000 specimens, 91 new species, and soft-tissue preservation, researchers ...

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Researchers studying the soft-bodied Ediacaran biotas of the world generally accept that there are three distinct assemblages. The 575–560-million-year-old (Ma) Avalon Assemblage is best known from ...

Paradise season 1 blew me away like a caldera explosion in the Antarctic when it debuted last year. A strange mash-up of a ...

We have witnessed many new eras in boxing, but the alliance between Saudi Arabian government official Turki Alalshikh and UFC president Dana White is a partnership that is changing the fabric of the ...

Announced exclusively on February 25, 2026, the project brings the comic’s high-stakes multiverse premise to the screen ...

He stressed that someone from Andhra is still Telugu, one from Tamil Nadu still Tamilian, and people from West Bengal remain Bengalis.

A gentle glide from “Kerala” to “Keralam” will not trigger an identity extinction event, CPI(M) leader John Brittas said on Wednesday while replying to Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, who asked what ...

The Union Cabinet has approved renaming Kerala to Keralam just before assembly elections. The decision sparked witty remarks ...