Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, ...

Animal populations have fallen by 73% in some species over the past 50 years. Are we on a fast track to widespread species ...

A new study reveals that a major cooling event 34 million years ago caused staggered marine extinctions, not a single global ...

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

Scientists Found What May Be Earth's First Mass Extinction and It Was More Catastrophic Than Anyone Realized ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

Many of their descendants—modern birds—are currently threatened by extinction, with hundreds of species at risk due to human activity. This article explores the major extinction events that influenced ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event.... How did these species survive mass extinction events?

A pair of Sacabambaspis fish, around 35 cm in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an armored head. No fossils of animals like Sacabambaspis from after the Late Ordovician Mass ...

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: ...