More than 500 million years ago, during what is known as the Cambrian period, the seas and oceans on Earth were filled with a ...

Construction on Prague Metro’s D line uncovered Soomaspis labutai, a 500-million-year-old arthropod fossil offering clues to ...

Long before dinosaurs dominated the land, Earth was shaped by unfamiliar seas, shifting continents, and experimental forms of life During the Paleozoic era, rapid diversification events and repeated ...

The Permian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic Era spanning approximately 299–252 million years ago, characterized by the assembly and dominance of the supercontinent Pangaea and associated ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, and shallow seas shrank fast. Ocean chemistry also shifted hard. In what ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within. But there’s a hidden ...

Extinction rates appear to have slowed since their peak in the early 1900s, suggesting not a reprieve for nature but a shift in how and where losses occur. Much of the damage was concentrated on ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data. Researchers found that species losses peaked about a century ago and have ...

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