Oxygen is everywhere on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. Scientists think oxygen only became a lasting part ...

A new study suggests that some of the world’s oxygen-deprived oceans could eventually regain higher oxygen levels in the ...

Large, lizard-like beasts with saber teeth, dragonflies the size of hawks, and scaly, beaked animals the size of a pig. Visitors can experience all of these and more at the ...

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...

Climate science, over the past few decades, especially since the turn of the new century, has increasingly identified trouble spots with ecosystems that ...

From looking into the future with artificial intelligence to learning about mummies of the past, the Museum of Idaho ventures ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.

Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...