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 ...

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 process starts slowly at first, with the formation of Laurasia and Gondwanaland as continents ... by extension, the ancient supercontinent. Called the mid-ocean ridges, these are enormous ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

Plate tectonics created and then broke apart an ancient supercontinent known as Rodinia. By around 550 million years ago, a fragment of Rodinia had shuffled south of the equator, where it lay ...

“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North ...

But trees didn’t yet exist during the Silurian period, so what exactly was this thing taking over the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana? That argument was never truly settled. Most scientists ...

Researchers have uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was ...