Volcanoes Started Earth’s ‘Great Dying.’ This Unexpected Plant Made It Worse
Some 200 million years ago, dramatic changes in climate and geology drove the extinction of approximately 80% of…
Study Claims 540-Million-Year-Old ‘Animal’ Fossils Are Something Else Entirely
In 2017, researchers found tiny, fossilized filaments that, at the time, appeared to be trace fossils of worms…
Study Challenges Popular Theory on Why Primordial Bugs Were So Darn Huge
About 350 million years ago, dragonflies were roughly 27 inches (70 centimeters) wide. Scientific consensus is that high…
We Might Have Been Wrong About Where Spiders Came From
Technically speaking, every living thing on Earth can trace its origins to the sea. Some of these earliest…