Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

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

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

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

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

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

Inspired by a similar effort in Buffalo, N.Y., and organized via Facebook groups, the Detroit Mass Mob held its first mass in April 2014 at St. Hyacinth in Detroit. Alongside Thomas, Jeff Stawasz ...

They have published their findings in the GSA Bulletin. During the worst mass extinction event on Earth, more than 80 per cent of ocean species were wiped out. However, life on land reacted ...

In a statement Friday, it said the result of the cuts “would be nothing short of an extinction event for space ... Planet and New Horizons becoming the first spacecraft to explore Pluto.

Of all the animals facing a major mass extinction event 252 million years ago ... kept the temnospondyls alive during the cataclysmic climate during the Triassic’s first five million years, their ...