Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. What happened next, in the direct aftermath ...

The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

The complete absence of these creatures in later strata suggests they might have vanished in a mass-extinction event that ...

Just over 512 million years ago, Earth’s life was shaken by a major extinction event, yet fossil evidence reveals it persisted. A newly discovered fossil site in South China captures an entire marine ...

A single stone quarry in China’s Hunan province — roughly the footprint of a modest house — has yielded more than 50,000 fossils and rewritten our understanding of what happened after one of Earth’s ...