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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

Colombia’s Santa Isabel glacier has lost 36% of its area since January 2025, with just 7 hectares of ice remaining.

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New uranium-lead dating of zircons from Oklahoma’s buried Ames impact structure points to a Late Devonian age near 370 ...

Over 200,000 years, Homo sapiens spread from a small corner of Africa to every corner of the globe, leaving a trail of extinctions in their wake. Based on Elizabeth Kolbert's landmark book, this is ...