Preserved in amber, the wasp appears to have used a Venus flytrap-like structure on its body to grasp potential hosts.

was the most devastating event in Earth’s history. 96% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates vanished around 252 million years ago. The planet was consumed by extreme environmental ...

A team of researchers proposes that 10 million years ago two giant neutron stars crashed into each other and debris from that intense explosion (called kilonova) fell on Earth and the Moon.

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Shatter cones and rock deformations reveal the force of the impact, but its full consequences remain uncertain. Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but ...

Earth has witnessed five mass extinction events in its history. The one that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago is one of the best-known ones ... and India point to one thing The study found ...

Establishing a direct link between Earth's interior dynamics occurring within the first 100 million years of its ... were established four billion years ago, very soon after the planet came ...