Just decades after facing mass extinction, the giant tortoise is now thriving as a species after a significant baby boom.

Birds are the only dinosaurs that survived the devastating asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The songbirds you see today ...

When Pangea's tropical forests died 252 million years ago, Earth stayed in a hothouse for five million years. New fossil maps ...

Industrial capitalism is trashing the planet and sucking the life out of this mostly-blue third rock from the sun.

Continents on Earth will come together to form a new supercontinent in about 200 million years. When this happens, the conditions will drastically change for all life. One of them will trigger a mass ...

Investors wrestle with valuing Anthropic as extinction risk, escrow proposals and trillion-dollar liabilities complicate the ...

While collecting data from nearly 1,700 reefs worldwide, we found over a dozen more sites that had way more fish than ...

The dangers of AI to humanity, including possible catastrophic scenarios, are making headlines. (photo: Shutterstock) While some Catholics are welcoming tech leaders’ call for a slowdown of AI ...

Martin LeFevre investigated artificial intelligence's capacity to transcend human avarice and coercive power, aiming to ...

An ancient crater beneath Ames, Oklahoma, is now believed to be nearly 100 million years younger than previously thought, potentially linking it to a major mass extinction event.

Earth seems like a troubled place right now, but at least our cosmic surroundings appear peaceful. But this is not universally true, as explosions ...

Hello, this is Chi Asakawa, and I'm honestly shocked at myself for leaving this blog untouched for two months since my last ...