Earth has experienced five mass extinctions throughout its history, with the most famous being the Chicxulub asteroid that ...

Scientists have warned that the Earth could already be in the midst of a sixth mass extinction event driven by climate change ...

A hidden process deep beneath Earth’s surface may have played a powerful role in some of the most dramatic climate swings in ...

Eluding us is the numbat, a rare Australian marsupial which could be the love-child of a chipmunk and an anteater. Numbats ...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid roughly 10 kilometres wide slammed into what is now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, gouging out the Chicxulub crater and triggering the most devastating mass ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, a colossal asteroid struck Earth, generating catastrophic global temperatures. As ...

The sweeping, crenellated towers of Cedar Mesa sandstone, formed from sediment deposited in Utah more than 250 million years ...

Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng revealed deep divisions over AI jobs, regulation and who should shape AI's future ...

Everyone knows dinosaurs got really big. Some of the long-necked plant-eaters were the largest land animals ever on Earth, as shown by Argentinosaurus, perhaps 70 to 90 tons and upwards of ​100 feet ...

A rare fossil discovered near South America's largest known meteorite crater has been named a new species. Initially mistaken for a frog by locals, Leolepis matogrossensis is actually a species of ...

The Albanese government has been accused of being too slow to protect native wildlife from bird flu, with New Zealand already ...

Under the combined pressures of disease, habitat destruction and rising temperatures, we are now seeing an alarming decline ...