Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

Putting an end to a mass extinction sounds like an impossible task, but some researchers argue that doing so would be setting ...

After all, animals go extinct regularly on geological timescales, but this mass extinction is largely human-driven. "Mutilating the tree of life is changing the systems in which human beings and ...

Compare this to the natural background rate of one extinction per million species per year, and you can see why scientists refer to it as a crisis unparalleled in human history. The current mass ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

A mass extinction event is already underway ... The sixth extinction differs from its predecessors because it is driven by human-made climate change. Kaiho's paper argues that because the pace ...

Researchers from the University of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution and London’s Natural History Museum analysed fossil ...

The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many scientists have declared the sixth mass extinction, as human actions are wiping out vertebrate ...

Extinction is a natural byproduct of life and evolution, but an alarming number of species have entered the dustbin of history thanks to human activity ... of the ongoing mass extinction ...

Mass extinctions are periods in Earth’s history ... the current threat is largely attributed to human activities. Deforestation, pollution, overfishing, and the burning of fossil fuels have ...

The Tasmanian tiger. The Baiji, or Yangtze river dolphin. These rank among the best-known recent victims of what many scientists have declared the sixth mass extinction, as human actions are wiping ...