About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

Serendipity struck a group of Ohio State University geologists last December as they picked away at the stratified sediment in an ancient ... a single supercontinent, called “Gondwanaland ...

The latest study highlights the role played by Australia’s dinosaurs in the ecosystems of the ancient world, a large part of which was clustered into the giant supercontinent Gondwanaland.