You read that right. Volcanoes are in fact the most deadly threat to humanity if we look at the history books.

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

For the first time, a giant alatoconchid bivalve fossil has been discovered by researchers in Central China's Hubei Province, ...

In today's video, we will be exploring what the world was like before, during and after the Great Dying. We will be meeting key species that were lost, and that lived through the extinction event, and ...

Bhurkunde’s session inaugurated a one-of-a-kind event, Pint of Science festival, on a thundering, rainy Monday in Pune. Pint ...

About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extinction—the most extreme event of its kind in Earth's history. What followed was a ...

(Image Credit: Yang Dinghua) Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian ... during the mass extinction period. The findings challenge one prevailing theory ...

Earth is no stranger to mass extinction events – it’s had five so far ... that Methanosarcina began to thrive towards the end of the Permian period; that meant more methane, which was ...

Life—in its myriad forms and billions of years on Earth—hasn’t ever experienced as harrowing an event as the end-Permian mass extinction. Fittingly known as The Great Dying, this period saw ...

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