The summit pyramid of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth, is built from the remains of creatures that lived on an ancient seafloor roughly 470 million years ago. Limestone near the peak ...

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One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity—a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable new species—may have the most modest of creatures to thank for ...

Earth’s first mass extinction: When anyone thinks of mass extinction on Earth, the first thing they think of is the extinction of dinosaurs about 66 million years ago, likely as an impact of comet or ...

Two amateur paleontologists have uncovered an important fossil site in southern France. The site contains around 400 fossils from around 470 million years ago. Scientists from the University of ...