Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

A 512-million-year-old ecosystem, frozen in stone, reveals an explosive comeback after a mass extinction no one fully understood, until now.

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

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

The impact of the asteroid 66 million years ago did not stop life from returning to normal for very long. New research shows ...

For decades, the asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has stood as a symbol of total planetary devastation. But ...

Austin Thompson stood in a Wake County court on Wednesday and entered a guilty plea to five counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder, two counts of assault with deadly weapon with intent to ...

School police officer Adrian Gonzales is on trial over his role in the response. Over three years after one of the deadliest mass shootings in American history, a school police officer who was one of ...

New discoveries in archaeology, genetics, and geology are piling up and they do not fit the clean textbook story of slow human progress. Evidence points to sudden cataclysms, lost knowledge, and ...

The delays are attributed to federal uncertainty, including stop-work orders issued by the Trump Administration on five major projects. Two projects, Revolution Wind and Empire Wind, have questioned ...

A long-standing mystery in vertebrate evolution — why most major fish lineages appear suddenly in the fossil record tens of millions of years after their presumed origins — is tied to the Late ...