Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction -- and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, 'groundbreaking' new fossil research reveals. The discovery ...

Around 252 million years ago, the world suddenly heated up. Over a geologically brief period of tens of thousands of years, ...

At that time, a vast ocean existed between Eurasia and Australia, which had been tethered to Antarctica as part of the supercontinent Pangaea. As Pangaea broke apart, the proposed Pontus plate ...

The first time Earth’s geologic record – information found inside rocks – has been used to create an animation of this kind.

A new study links the largest mass extinction, which occurred 252 million years ago during the Permian-Triassic period, to ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...