The study of extinction dynamics in the fossil record integrates patterns of biodiversity loss with environmental and biotic drivers across geological time. Fluctuations in global diversity often ...

Learn more about Qreiya 3 Lagerstätte, a fossil-rich site that could help fill key gaps in marine evolution.

Insects, the most diverse group of animals on Earth, trace their origins to the late Silurian or early Devonian, around 400 million years ago. Early lineages acquired powered flight and, later, ...

Ancient fish fossils from Egypt fill a 10-million-year gap, revealing how modern ocean fish emerged after the asteroid ...

The extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs is best known for clearing the way for the Age of Mammals on land. Scientists ...

Scientists have uncovered an extraordinary collection of ancient fossils in China that is helping to explain a little-known chapter in the history of life on Earth. The fossils, which date back 512 ...

When an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million years ago, it ended the age of dinosaurs and transformed life across the planet. The effects of that catastrophe are visible in the fossil record on land ...