Sharks might be the all time bullet-dodging champions. They’ve been around for about 450 million years, longer than trees, longer than the rings of Saturn, and longer than most of the other life on ...

Professor John Marshall collecting samples on the End Devonian mass extinction in East Greenland. Credit: Chris Berry A ...

For hundreds and thousands of years, Earth has endured cataclysmic events that have molded life on our planet. While the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago is well-known ...

Earth has a long and dramatic history, and one recurring theme is extinction. Did you know that over the last 500 million years, our planet experienced five major mass extinction events? These events ...

The Devonian Period, spanning approximately 419–359 million years ago, represents a pivotal phase in South America’s deep-time history. Fossiliferous formations across the continent—particularly ...

The Earth has experienced five major mass extinctions, beginning with the Ordovician period about 443 million years ago, and continuing through the Devonian, Permian, Triassic, and Cretaceous periods ...