One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.
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Mass extinction helped jawed vertebrates rise, study finds
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...
Learn how microscopic fossils reveal that tiny seafloor organisms were already feeding and recycling nutrients soon after one ...
An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ...
Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...
The last meal eaten by a wolf cub before its demise, some 14,400 years ago, has yielded new insight into how the woolly ...
Speciation and extinction are the twin engines that have sculpted the diversity of life on Earth. Speciation, the process by which new species arise from ancestral populations, is driven by a mixture ...
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