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

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience ...

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

Research data suggests humans may have nearly gone extinct almost 1 million years ago, but scientists aren't sure why.

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

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

This series of mass extinctions during the Devonian period ... currently,” paleontologist Christian Kammerer told Popular Science in a 2023 interview. “[They] represent a very rare case ...

Study by UChicago, Smithsonian, UK Natural History Museum challenges assumptions about survival after global catastrophe ...

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

The end of the Ordovician, in contrast, was kicked off by the Earth’s thermostat firmly flipping to “cold” – and much like ...

Co-founded by renowned entrepreneur Ben Lamm, Texas-based biotech and genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences is ...

The science involved in their birth ... American Museum of Natural History. "Six (Mass) Extinctions in 440 Million Years." American Museum of Natural History, Dec. 2015, https://www.amnh.org ...