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Ediacaran fossils

Ediacarans: Did competition kill off Earth’s mysterious first animals?

17 May 2022

A mysterious extinction about 540 million years ago may have been caused when early animals began competing against one another


Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs gave birth to the Amazon rainforest

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs gave birth to the Amazon rainforest

1 April 2021

The asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago eliminated plant-trampling dinosaurs and rained fertilising ash on South America's rainforests, letting flowering plants take over what used to be mostly coniferous forests


AI suggests Earth has had fewer mass extinctions than we thought

AI suggests Earth has had fewer mass extinctions than we thought

16 January 2020

The late Devonian mass extinction around 375 million years ago may not have really happened, according to an analysis using machine learning


Excavating fossils

Ancient hippo-like reptile was a giant to rival the dinosaurs

22 November 2018

We thought only dinosaurs grew into giants during the Triassic, but we've discovered fossils of a mammal-like reptile that was 5 metres long and 3 metres tall


Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction

23 October 2017

A bird group named the Vegaviidae, which resembled modern loons and geese, is the first identified with members that lived before and after the Cretaceous extinction


The mass extinction that might never have happened

The mass extinction that might never have happened

19 October 2017

An ecological catastrophe 201 million years ago supposedly paved the way for the rise of giant dinosaurs, but it may not have happened that way after all


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