One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.
An international team of scientists from UCT has discovered fossil evidence of a resilient ecosystem that played a crucial ...
Freshwater extinctions rarely happen overnight, especially in a habitat as large as the Yangtze River. However, it’s still ...
An international team of scientists has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem in the Cederberg mountains, revealing ...
An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...
In 2025, the world marked another sad milestone in the ongoing loss of biodiversity: multiple species long missing from their habitats were officially declared extinct on the International Union for ...
A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.
During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...
Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...
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