Earth's largest mass extinction occurred about 252 million years ago, wiping out the majority of marine and terrestrial life, ...

For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some estimates, species are ...

An ancient predatory dinosaur that lived 220 million years ago, Maleriraptor kuttyi, redefines carnivorous dinosaurs' origin ...

A newly identified dinosaur species, Maleriraptor kuttyi, is reshaping what we know about the survival and evolution of ...

The depths of the Arctic Ocean have warmed more than scientists expected. New research has placed the blame on warmer water ...

In the future, unless you are obsessed with looking at the dates on coins, you will never know that the penny is no longer ...

Scientists found Arctic fossils showing ocean life recovered just 3 million years after extinction, revealing how fast ecosystems rebuild.

More than 30,000 teeth, bones and other fossils from a 249 million-year-old community of extinct marine reptiles, amphibians, bony fish and sharks have been discovered on the remote Arctic island of ...

Evolution isn't about the pursuit of perfection, say our readers, but rather what’s most optimal for the species at hand ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event. The eruptions spewed large amounts of greenhouse gases ...

Rare fossils reveal that worms managed to survive multiple mass extinction events. A recent scientific investigation has ...

The book says humanity first became aware of extinction when people realized that many organisms—plants, animals and ...