Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Professor Martin Becker is suing his employer William Paterson University, its mail room supervisor and others for allegedly ...

"Our client learned that the packages were dumped at an unidentified landfill somewhere in or around Nashville, Tennessee," ...

An environmental science professor and paleontologist has spent his career collecting Devonian Age marine invertebrate ...

The lawsuit alleges that William Paterson University's unpaid invoices led to around 200 marine fossils being discarded in ...

Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...

So much time has elapsed since these vast death events, we may never know their cause exactly, but this work indicates it isn ...

New research suggests that powerful star explosions, called supernovae, may have caused at least two mass extinctions in ...

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...