Trilobites went extinct for good. On land, large herbivores like Moschops also disappeared. This extinction cleared the way for dinosaurs but wiped out most large amphibians and early archosaurs ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Matthew Bannister on Oleg Gordievsky, the KGB agent who defected to Britain and became a valued source of secret intelligence during the 1970s and 80s. Renee Goddard, the actress and TV commissioner ...

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The prolific filmmaker reflects on chasing abstraction, juggling multiple projects and his refusal to seek permission ...

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The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest elevation on Earth, contain fossils of trilobites, arthropods ... a geologist at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. “That’s a big knowledge gap.” ...

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I ask Fortey whether he thinks trilobites are beautiful – knowing the answer – and suggest that some people might find the idea of these creatures scuttling about in large numbers horrifying. He takes ...