What caused largest ever mass extinction?
New study provides comprehensive reconstruction of the Permian-Triassic extinction event that wiped out 96% of species 252 million years ago.
Natural History
What caused Mass Extinction 360 million years ago?
360 million years ago at least 70% of all species went extinct. What happened? A newly published paper has revealed some fresh evidence.
Has Dinosaur DNA really been found?
There are very serious claims that Dinosaur DNA has been discovered in 75 million year old bones. There are also serious challenges to this.
Climate warming disrupts tree seed production
New study uses 39 year dataset to show that Climate change is disrupting masting (seed production) and its associated functions.
How did they date the oldest stardust material?
Analysis of samples from meteorite reveals stardust that is 7 billion years old, far older than our sun & earth. How did they work this out?
The Jurassic challenge to God – ichthyosaur
The discovery of specimens such as the ichthyosaur was a bold wakeup call that prevailing beliefs were wrong – Thankfully people did listen.