Fossil evidence from the Denver Basin indicates a significant fungal bloom after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction.

Scientists are studying a growing sand tiger shark population that spends summers in Boston Harbor.

The world is facing the threat of the sixth mass extinction of species, and this process is not slowing down. Camila Jardim, ...

From tiny bees to big whales, all of the players on nature's team are essential Image: Yonhap News/IMAGO From the tiniest ...

An artificial-intelligence model trained on nearly four million fossils suggests that three of the extinction events might ...

A phylogenetic analysis of 314 mammal species in Nigeria associated extinction risk with brain mass, absolute current geographic range and generation time, while the relevant traits differed among ...

Scientists estimate about 99 per cent of species that have existed on Earth are extinct — thanks largely to five mass extinctions over hundreds of millions of years.

A comprehensive IUCN Red List reassessment of 892 reef-building coral species finds that 44 percent face elevated relative ...

Fossils unearthed in Boone County are revealing new secrets about life during the ice age. A former UC professor says they ...

Protesters disrupt the Easter Vigil Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City on March 30, 2024. / Credit: XR NYC ...

A major new Lancet commission identifies nuclear war and malicious AI among threats capable of causing human extinction this ...

Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman, whose company makes AI chips, believes that talk of the existential threat posed by ...