The Pac-12 is back. More than four years after a mass exodus threatened the future of the conference, the Pac-12 returns to ...

Shakajlura riojanensis, a newly discovered Triassic apex predator, ruled the land millions of years before the rise of giant dinosaurs. Emerging from the ashes of the planet’s worst mass extinction, ...

Since its formation approximately 4.5 billion years ago, Earth has endured five mass extinctions, where roughly 75 percent of the planet's species disappeared within 2.8 million years - merely a blink ...

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A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet’s biggest mass extinction while most animals did not. About 252 million years ago, 96% of marine ...

An interdisciplinary team from Florida State University's Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science has uncovered new evidence about processes that may have contributed to ancient ...

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the "sixth mass extinction"—the first to be caused by human activities. Five earlier mass extinctions, caused by dramatic but ...

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A mass extinction event is no longer a distant possibility, it’s already underway. Scientists warn that species are disappearing at rates up to 1,000 times faster than normal, with over a million now ...

Scientists have shown conclusively for the first time that tiny marine organisms in polar oceans survived the mass extinction event that wiped out prehistoric dinosaurs because they needed less energy ...

The asteroid that smacked into our planet about 66 million years ago at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary may have been bad news for dinosaurs, but it was good news for fungi. According to new ...