Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...

This image shows the reconstruction of the terrestrial landscape before (B), during (A), and after (C) the mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period in ...

Some scientists have now branded the “Great Dying” as a “crisis on land, not an extinction” after new fossil discoveries led ...

A new study reveals that supernova explosions may have caused two mass extinctions on Earth 372 million and 445 million years ...

One lineage produced our ancestors, the first mammals. Now we are creating a new mass extinction, wiping out countless species. Will life be as resilient this time? I remembered the acid-tolerant ...

The Edelman Fossil Park and Museum opens March 29 unveiling a century of dinosaur discoveries and a fossil quarry to dig in.

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...

The mass extinction event, which took place at the ... Challenging this widely accepted view, the new study presents the first definitive fossil evidence of a terrestrial plant community that ...