New study reveals brief, globally coherent phosphorus spikes linked to ancient marine mass extinctions. The findings highlight how nutrient-cycle disruption can contribute to ocean oxygen loss and ...

Tropical ecosystems rely on the infrastructure provided by termites. These insects supply plants with vital nutrients by ...

Remarkably preserved fossils found in southern China offer a fascinating window into what life looked like at the end of the ...

Currently, the planet is undergoing its sixth mass extinction event. While mass extinctions have occurred naturally in the ...

Over 200,000 years, a single species spread from a small corner of Africa to dominate every ecosystem on Earth, driving countless others to extinction along the way. This is the story of how Homo ...

The history of life on Earth has been shaped by repeated episodes of destruction and renewal. While the extinction that ended the reign of dinosaurs 66 million years ago remains the most widely known, ...

Researchers identified an early mammal ancestor whose eggs may have helped it survive the Great Dying 250 million years ago.

A distorted dinosaur skull, once dismissed as unusable, became the focus of a detailed digital reconstruction that revealed ...

Corals are in fact three things in one: something of an animal, something of a plant, and something of a stone. They make ...

As he reaches 100, broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough has spoken of the changes he has seen in his lifetime – and the horrifying consequences of climate change in the years to come ...

An online tool lets you trace where any latitude location on Earth was 320 million years ago, revealing how continents drift ...