A wave of new research is forcing paleontologists to reconsider a basic question about life on Earth: when did the first mass ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. What happened next, in the direct aftermath ...

Waves of extinction have ripped through life on Earth over and over again during its long history. The non-avian dinosaurs ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis ...

More than 500 million years before humans walked the Earth, a catastrophic extinction event wiped out vast numbers of early animal species. Now, fossils pulled from a single quarry in southern China ...

A single stone quarry in China’s Hunan province — roughly the footprint of a modest house — has yielded more than 50,000 fossils and rewritten our understanding of what happened after one of Earth’s ...