A new analysis suggests that recent extinctions have been rare, limited mostly to islands and slowing. But others argue this is all just semantics.

The planet is seeing a decline in biodiversity, but extinctions are relatively rare and don’t meet the threshold for a sixth ...

Dinosaurs' extinction "re-engineered" Earth's surface, according to new research. The reptiles had such an "immense" impact ...

Earth's history is marked by violent mass extinctions that have shaped life on the planet. Here's how many of these events ...

Hundreds of species have gone extinct in recent centuries, but losses are few among larger classification levels, meaning we ...

New research shows that while many species have disappeared, extinctions of genera are very rare across plants and animals.

(CN) — For the past few decades scientists and biodiversity experts have sounded the alarm on what has been called the “the ...

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The most famous of these mass extinction events — when an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, ...

The museum tapped artists — including Chicago rock screenprinter Jay Ryan — to visualize a 15-million-year period in time ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including ...

Mass extinction events represent intervals of abrupt, large‐scale loss of biodiversity that have repeatedly reshaped life on Earth. These crises are commonly linked to dramatic environmental ...

Mass extinction : a general view / Ashraf M.T. Elewa -- Late Ordovician mass extinction / Ashraf M.T. Elewa -- The end Ordovician : an ice age in the middle of a greenhouse / Curtis R. Congreve -- ...