Let’s take a look at some times when staying alive was particularly difficult… The Middle Cretaceous may have been a ...

Currently, the planet is undergoing its sixth mass extinction event. While mass extinctions have occurred naturally in the ...

Thomas Mulligan details the catastrophic environmental impacts of a 2-degree Celsius global temperature rise, including ...

New study reveals brief, globally coherent phosphorus spikes linked to ancient marine mass extinctions. The findings highlight how nutrient-cycle disruption can contribute to ocean oxygen loss and ...

Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extreme stress in times of ...

High plant extinction rates are projected for southern Europe, the western U.S. and southern Australia by 2100, posing risks to plant species like these eucalyptus trees growing in Australia.

Learn how egg size may help explain why ammonites didn’t survive the end-Cretaceous extinction 66 million years ago, while ...

As he reaches 100, broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough has spoken of the changes he has seen in his lifetime – and the horrifying consequences of climate change in the years to come ...

Some of the most beautiful creatures to grace the ancient seas, the ammonites, disappeared in the end-Cretaceous mass ...

Exciting news on the extinction front emerged last week from Indonesia: An orangutan used a rope bridge strung high between ...

A distorted dinosaur skull, once dismissed as unusable, became the focus of a detailed digital reconstruction that revealed ...