When it comes to mass extinctions, you probably imagine giant volcanic eruptions or asteroids raining fire from the sky, but ...

Human activity has accelerated extinction rates, raising concerns that we may be entering a sixth mass extinction.

Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...

In a new study in Geology, researchers calculated how long it took for novel single-celled marine species to appear after the asteroid impact, and it’s surprisingly fast.

Telepathic dogs, eerily topical pandemics, mass infertility. When it comes to zombies, disease, or mass extinction, these ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

Sixty-six million years ago, the dinosaurs had a really bad day when a colossal asteroid impact spurred their extinction. But ...

Dr Claire Browning has led an international team of scientists to uncover fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped ...

A group of Washington Post foreign correspondents sent a "collective plea" to owner Jeff Bezos amid rumors mass layoffs are ...

The impact of the asteroid in present-day Yucatan wiped out almost all life on Earth. It recovered faster than previously ...

Triops are so old that they are considered living fossils and will eat anything possible, including earthworms.

Musk spends billions on X to turn it into a far right platform waging war on Muslims and refugees - a distraction from the ...