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

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

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

The impact of the asteroid 66 million years ago did not stop life from returning to normal for very long. New research shows ...

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.

An ancient ocean die-off set the stage for jawed vertebrates to diversify and, much later, dominate.

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

Acknowledging the evidence, which has been before us for a couple of generations and doing nothing, amounts to collective ...

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

I READ with great interest an article by Umair Haque about capitalism and socialism and would like to share part of his views ...

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 ...