Professor John Marshall, a palaeontologist at the University of Southampton, has been awarded a Polar Medal in the 2026 New Year’s Honours for his outstanding contributions to polar research. The ...
Professor John Marshall collecting samples on the End Devonian mass extinction in East Greenland. Credit: Chris Berry A ...
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Since the beginning of time, Earth has created life and then wiped out most of it in catastrophic, ultra-destructive moments. Starting with the very first extinction event since multicellular life ...
A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research. A fossil of ...
Human beings have existed for 300,000 years and have managed to live in many unstable environments. We've survived ice ages, devastating pandemics and world wars. But how would we fare even further ...
Hundreds gathered to say goodbye when 700-year-old Pizol died. The funeral in Switzerland in 2019 was solemn. Mourners wore black; flowers were laid; a priest spoke. It was a symbolic moment: Pizol ...
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