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

It's safe to say that most of us are familiar with the concept of mass extinction. But this is by no means a recent ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may reflect how dinosaurs ...