The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one of Earth’s largest mass extinctions.

Long after the dinosaurs vanished, clams told a quiet story. Their ancient shells, dug from layers of ocean stone, now offer surprising clues about life after disaster. A new study from an ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago. Learning why could provide crucial evidence about prehistoric ecosystems and ...

In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that era remain and continue to give scientists clues ...

IT SURVIVED a greater disaster than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs and points to how life evolved after the extinctions. Fossils found in Tasmania have scientists convinced the dicynodont, ...

In the Cretaceous period, Earth was plagued by widespread volcanic activity, oceanic oxygen depletion events, and mass extinctions. Fossils from that era remain and continue to give scientists clues ...

DINOSAURS | EXTINCTIONS | US finally arrives with 400 million years of Earth's history, rare fossils and a spectacular 40-metre-long dinosaur Bringing the theme of extinction closer to home, the ...

Fossils, rocks and geological time -- The oldest fossils -- Trilobites and other arthropods -- Ammonites and their relatives -- Superabundant shells -- Invertebrates of all shapes and sizes -- The ...