For millions of years, large herbivores like mastodons and giant deer shaped the Earth's ecosystems, which astonishingly ...

The Earth is rapidly warming, and similar climate upheavals over 300 million years ago once triggered massive fluctuations in ...

While life on Earth does usually find a way, it is not without some intense past–and future–periods of mass death. Extinction is not exclusive to dinosaurs. Our planet has gone through at ...

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

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to ...

Is the biosphere today on the verge of anything like the mass extinctions of the geological past? Could some equivalent of meteorite impacts or dramatic climate change be underway, as humankind's ...

The explosive supernova deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history, according to new research.

This realization led Wright and his co-authors to connect the cosmic phenomenon with mass extinctions on Earth. Cataclysmic events have taken place five times in the past 500 million years ...

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

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...