The Earth has gone through many major events over the course of hundreds of millions of years. Some of the most significant ...

Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on Earth.

Jablonski explained that many scientists assumed that if you flatten the playing field, as in a mass extinction, the survivors should all take advantage of the opportunity and diversify rapidly. “That ...

Extinction is an overwhelming concept, difficult to grasp in its enormity and finality. Thousands of species are barreling ...

Earth's biodiversity is in crisis. An imminent "sixth mass extinction" threatens beloved and important wildlife. It also ...

Marine bivalves lost around three-quarters of their species during this mass extinction, which marked the end of the Cretaceous Period. My colleagues and I – each of us paleobiologists studying ...

A global study finds over 3,500 animal species already threatened by climate change, with invertebrates and marine life most ...

Instead, he argues that we should aim to prevent human-induced extinction from hitting 0.2 per cent of species – a far cry from the 75 per cent needed to qualify for a mass extinction, and the ...

The mammal in question is the Falkland Islands wolf ( Dusicyon australis ), the first canid known to have been driven to ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.