Paleontologists have uncovered a 444-million-year-old fossil with remarkably intact soft tissues, such as muscles, tendons, ...
New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...
But once Gondwana took up its polar position in the late Ordovician, massive glaciers formed over Africa at the supercontinent's center. This heralded a 20-million-year ice age during which ...
Two of Earth’s five confirmed mass extinction events could have been caused by nearby supernova explosions stripping the ...