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

The research adds to the growing body of evidence that higher temperatures, rather than a giant space rock hitting the planet, led to the greatest mass extinction in history. Prehistoric extinction ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

Fifty thousand years ago, North America's landscapes were alive with an astonishing array of enormous creatures. Massive woolly mammoths roamed vast icy plains, while dense forests echoed with the ...

Major wine company will lay off more than 1,700 California workers and leave the state Why Amal Clooney Doesn't Let People Use their Phones at Her House ...

Jellyfish are among Earth’s most ancient and resilient inhabitants, silently drifting through our oceans for over 650 million years. While dinosaurs, trilobites, and countless other species have ...

Zion National Park debuts a new exhibit exploring the End Triassic Extinction, based on research conducted within the park’s rock layers.

A Pattern of Extinctions According to Our World in Data, Mass extinctions are not new to Earth. For over 500 million years, the planet has experienced five major biological crises, during which at ...

But nature is often full of surprises, and some creatures still managed to come back from the brink of extinction through persistent conservation efforts, some hope, and the resilience of nature ...

The “No Kings” protests in every state may have been the biggest day of demonstrations in American history, a data analyst has suggested. “Based on hundreds of crowd-sourced records of No ...

Despite peaceful demonstrations reported in multiple cities, violence flared at some anti-Trump protests over the weekend.