Ginkgo Biloba&#039s lineage dates back more than 290 million years to the Permian period, even predating the era of the ...

And many experts argue that the Anthropocene age, the current period of human activity altering Earth, is causing a sixth. Paleontologists track mass ... the Permian-Triassic extinction around ...

When Little Boy was dropped over Hiroshima by the Allied forces in 1945, temperatures in the city rose to 7,000°F from ground ...

The Permian period lasted from 299 million to 252 million years ago. During this time, the global climate rapidly warmed, ultimately leading to a mass-extinction event that marked the end of this ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known saber-toothed predator, a 270-million-year-old gorgonopsian therapsid fossil.

Say hello to Mercury, that pesky rock that always seems to be in retrograde ruining your life. A spacecraft operated by the ...

The Triassic is a tale of two histories. One is its natural history, begun after the Great Permian Dying, 252m years ago, when, as happens from time to time, plate tectonics brought Earth’s continents ...

They’ve lived through the ice age, the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and brushed off an atomic blast just a mile away ...

This is the third time a spacecraft has visited Mercury in the history of space exploration. BepiColombo’s three monitoring ...

the imprints in rock were left by reptiles and amphibians during the Permian period, which ended with the world’s largest mass extinction The marble slab, which dates to between 300 and 500 C.E ...