Commentary: Proposed Endangered Species Act changes would limit habitat protections, putting vulnerable plants, animals and ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Bird flu could decimate everything from pelicans and ibises to penguins and quolls, a horrifying risk analysis shows.

A new study from Purdue University is offering fresh insight into how the asteroid impact that ended the age of the ...

Dragonflies and damselflies have been flying across Earth for more than 200 million years. They appeared long before the ...

The world is not okay, yet Americans continue to ignore global problems. Is there hope for solving the biggest problems in ...

The bronze sculpture Angels Unawares by Canadian artist Timothy Schmalz. (Credit Image: © Valeria Ferraro/SOPA Images via ...