The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t keep life down for long. New research shows that microscopic plankton began evolving into new species within just a few thousand years—and ...
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Study suggests Earth’s first mass extinction may have been overlooked
A wave of new research is forcing paleontologists to reconsider a basic question about life on Earth: when did the first mass ...
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The forgotten apocalypse: Scientists think Earth's first mass extinction has been hidden in plain sight
Waves of extinction have ripped through life on Earth over and over again during its long history. The non-avian dinosaurs ...
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event, marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods approximately 66 million years ago, stands as one of the most profound ...
Life changes over time. Of course, it does. We know this thanks to a wealth of converging evidence in the form of millions of fossils, clear genetic clues, and observations made out in the field and ...
A pair of Sacabambaspis fish, around 35 cm in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an armored head. No fossils of animals like Sacabambaspis from after the Late Ordovician Mass ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. There’s an important concept in evolutionary biology called ...
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