Small, hairy and cheekily charismatic. Author Michelle Campbell-Ward Associate Professor, Wildlife and Avian Medicine, University of Sydney Those ...

Ames crater under Oklahoma has been shown to be nearly 100 million years younger than thought, and is now dated at 370 ...

A University of New Mexico scientist is making connections between climate change and mass extinctions across millions of ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth experienced the largest mass extinction described in the file: the Great Dying. About 90% of marine life and 70% of animal and plant life disappeared. Scientists in ...

New radioisotopic constraints and implications for North American impact chronology’, new evidence points to a very different timeline. By dating zircon from impact-melted granite, researchers may ...

A meteor impact buried beneath the small town of Ames, Oklahoma, has been given a dramatically different age. For years, the ...

It’s believed prior to the 1800s there were 30 million to 60 million bison in the U.S., but then what’s known as the “the Great Slaughter” led the population to shatter to fewer than 1,000 by the ...

On October 4th, I went with my daughter to the Osaka Museum of Natural History in Nagai Park to see the "Great Extinction ...

Scientists are using boats, aircraft and drones in a race against time to investigate the deaths of whale calves that are ...

This undated photo provided by Xing Lida, a researcher from China University of Geosciences (Beijing), shows fossilized ...

A new study has identified trace fossils of a large horseshoe crab species dating back more than 240 million years, from the shallow reaches of long-vanished waters in east China. These findings offer ...

University of Louisville AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy has put the chance of AI-driven human extinction within a century at 99.9 per cent, far above other estimates.