More than 60 years ago, Bruce Runnegar was visiting Petrie’s Quarry in Brisbane with school friends when he discovered a ...

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...

Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.

Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass ...

Contributed by Kea Giles, Managing Editor, GeologyBoulder, Colo., USA: Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's ...

SRINAGAR: The Environmental Policy Group has sought a dedicated budgetary allocation of Rs 10 crore in the Jammu and Kashmir Budget 2026–27 for the protection, conservation and scientific development ...

For decades, scientists thought the oceans took tens of millions of years to recover after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Most marine life was gone. Complex ecosystems were expected to rebuild slowly.

Earth’s history is punctuated by devastating mass extinction events that have wiped out the majority of species living at the time. These catastrophic episodes have reset the evolutionary clock ...

Fire once seemed strangely absent from Earth’s history right after the worst mass extinction the planet had ever seen. This stretch of time, about 250 million years ago in the Early Triassic, looked ...

Almost all life on land and in the ocean was wiped out during "The Great Dying," a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests that the Great ...