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

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

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

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

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Our work to discover, save, monitor and protect the most threatened, whether visible or not, is unwavering. Together we can ...

Whether AI brings the “mass extinction event” or just a “rough patch in the middle,” as Biden suggests, still isn’t clear.

New research suggests dinosaur populations were still thriving in North America before the asteroid strike, but it's only one piece of the global picture, independent experts say.