Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

And, those like Ceballos who argue a major mass extinction has already begun, point to calculations that indicate we could reach that grim, 75 percent mile marker in just a few centuries.

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on Earth.

The most likely cause of this mass extinction was an increase in volcanic activity. At this time, the huge prehistoric supercontinent of Pangaea was starting to break up.

Take averting a sixth mass extinction. It definitely sounds hard. Mass extinctions are devastating events – there is no precise definition, but these are broadly understood as leading to the ...

Dinosaurs only started to live large after a mass extinction altered the planet in their favor. Lucas Atwell CC BY-SA 3.0. Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs.

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research.During the final stages of ...