Around 66 million years ago, Earth underwent a catastrophic event that wiped out nearly 75% of all species, including the dinosaurs. This wasn't the first mass extinction in our planet's history ...

But scientists debate if that’s sufficient evidence to conclude that Earth is undergoing a mass extinction event—or whether that’s even a helpful designation. After a year teaching an algorithm to ...

In the icy wilderness of Antarctica, where glaciers now dominate the landscape, scientists have unearthed a fossil that ...

For months I'd been on the trail of the greatest natural disaster in Earth's history ... killer responsible for the largest of the many mass extinctions that have struck the planet.

The Ordovician period, which lasted from about 485 to 444 million years ago, is a significant era in Earth's history, marked by a rich diversity of marine life and notable mass extinction events.

Here are four animals that managed to persist through Earth’s mass extinction events. Additionally, horseshoe crabs have a reproductive strategy that includes spawning in large numbers ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton have shown that a mass extinction event 360 million years ago was caused by a brief breakdown of the ozone layer that protects Earth ...

While the series deals with Earth’s history on a geological ... So it’s not a sixth mass extinction event that we’re precipitating, it’s a mass extermination event.” ...

We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimated that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction.

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs ... the survival of at least 25% of species on Earth following the event. While sulfur remains the primary driver ...