A Buried Oklahoma Crater Was Dated to the Wrong Era—and It Actually Lines Up With a Mass Extinction
In 1991, an oil company discovered a giant crater buried under Ames, Oklahoma. Subsequent investigations led researchers to…
Inside the strange physics of why time stops at the speed of light
A clock aboard a fast-moving spacecraft does not break, lag or malfunction. It ticks normally for everyone inside.…
Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of Earth’s ‘Great Dying.’ It’s Bad News for Our Future
Roughly 252 million years ago, nearly all life on Earth vanished. In a blink of geologic time, the…
What happens when environmental change outpaces life’s ability to adapt? | MIT News
When an animal’s environment changes faster than the animal can adapt, its chances of survival can flat-line. The…
Ancient Oceans Began Losing Oxygen Millions of Years before End-Triassic Mass Extinction
Chemical traces preserved in ancient rocks indicate that marine environments were deteriorating long before the catastrophe that wiped…
The Two Million Years Rain Crisis That Helped the Dinosaurs Take Over
Artistic representation of a Middle-Late Triassic landscape of southern Brazil. A large Prestosuchus chiniquensis feeds on the carcass of a…
The Cockroach of Dinosaurs Likely Survived Extinction Because of Its Big Wet Eggs
Fantastic numbers of leathery, beaked Lystrosaurus—a distant ancestor to today’s mammals, often the size of a small dog—roamed…
Ancient human populations disappeared 3,000 years ago in France: DNA study reveals Paris tomb mystery | World News
There are records of whole human groups disappearing mysteriously from parts of northwest Europe, particularly what is now…
Scientists Say This Animal Could Rule the World After Humans Go Extinct
Mass extinction is not just a theory; Earth has already gone through five of them, including the event…