A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth’s mass extinctions.

His superpower has always been speaking his mind – and his majestic new BBC show aims to shatter our ideas about life itself. The presenter talks mass extinction, spiders who dream and why people get ...

A mass extinction event is no longer a distant possibility, it’s already underway. Scientists warn that species are disappearing at rates up to 1,000 times faster than normal, with over a million now ...

Earth’s history has been shaped by five mass extinctions—catastrophic periods when life changed so dramatically that entire ...

An interdisciplinary team from Florida State University's Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science has uncovered ...

Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from ancient mammals in China, revealing how they adapted and diversified after the ...

Dinosaurs likely munched on a lot more fruit than previously imagined. Recent research appearing in the journal Science ...

A beloved white rhino named Thelma has died "unexpectedly" at a Massachusetts zoo, while her companion Louise remains under ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

Life on Earth underwent a long evolutionary journey that eventually gave rise to us, the purportedly intelligent species that ...

Following our planet's most infamous mass extinction event, a mated pair of dinosaurs fight to survive an incredible 30-year period of darkness in a new episode of "Surviving Earth." ...