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For billions of years, life on Earth has undergone dramatic changes, from the rise of the first single-celled organisms to the explosion of complex life during the Cambrian period. But what happened ...

Fossils long assumed to have vanished before a major mass extinction about 550 million years ago have now been found persisting until that event. That overlap transforms what once looked like a ...

Earth’s history is marked by catastrophic events that have wiped out the majority of species living at different times. These mass extinctions—defined as events that eliminate over 75% of species in a ...

For years, DinoLand U.S.A. was one of those places at Disney’s Animal Kingdom that people either loved, mocked, or secretly enjoyed even if they didn’t want to admit it. It wasn’t Pandora. It wasn’t ...

What causes recurrent mass extinctions of life? We find that the ages of 10 of the 11 well-documented extinction episodes of the last 260 m.y. show correlations, at very high confidence (>99.99%), ...

If you want a quiet but brutally clear signal of how badly biodiversity is unraveling on islands, look at land snails. A major new review led by Robert Cowie at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. What happened next, in the direct aftermath ...

This post contains forecast details about ongoing winter weather alerts, the general snowstorm timeline, and travel impacts through late Monday. Weather Alerts: Winter storm warnings have been posted ...

A potentially historic major winter storm stretching more than 2,300 miles across the U.S. has begun. The system is expected to deliver harsh winter weather, impacting more than 245 million Americans ...