In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

Smithsonian researchers have linked discoveries within Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park with a previously unknown ...

Ever since the first dinosaur fossils were identified in the 19th century, scientists have been trying to figure out why ...

At least five times, a catastrophe has killed off the vast majority of Earth’s species. As scientists say we’re in a sixth mass extinction, what can we learn from the past?

As mass extinctions show us, sudden climate change can be profoundly disruptive. And while we haven’t yet crossed the 75-percent threshold of a mass extinction, that doesn’t mean things are fine.

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

This coincided with a mass extinction, likely the worst in Earth's history.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need ...

The biggest mass cataclysm of all time, called the end-Permian extinction, occurred 252 million years ago. Some 95% of species disappeared on land and at sea as a result of global warming — with ...

A mass extinction event is already underway. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The present extinction rate of life on Earth ...

The sixth mass extinction is not a worry for the future. It’s happening now – much faster than previously expected – and it’s entirely our fault, according to a new study.

The most famous of these mass extinction events — when an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, dooming the dinosaurs and many other species — is also the most recent.But ...