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

A study published in 2023 suggests that nearly 1 million years ago, humanity almost ceased to exist. This potential mass ...

A chilling new assessment suggests our planet is hurtling towards an unprecedented loss of life, with human activity squarely ...

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

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

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

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

Gene editing holds the potential of suppressing mosquito species that carry deadly diseases — and raises ethical questions.

White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, more than 15,000 years ago. The ...

White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, over 15,000 years ago. The ...

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

They inhabit deep marine caves at depths between 150-700 meters (500-2,300 feet), which may explain how they evaded human detection for so long. Their deep-water habitat likely provided refuge during ...