Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...

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

A massive ice age wiped out ocean life 445 million years ago, reshaping ecosystems and setting the stage for jawed fish ...

A pair of 'Sacabambaspis' fish, around 14 inches (35 centimeters) in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an ...

A devastating ice age wiped out most marine life, yet new research reveals how this ancient disaster unexpectedly paved the ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.

Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

A group of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales were spotted off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on ...

A new study challenges a decades-old assumption about the loss of Hawaiʻi’s native waterbirds. Challenging a half-century-old explanation for the loss of Hawaiʻi’s native birds, a new study from the U ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...