The Permian Extinction was one of the most significant events in the history of our planet, one that took place over ...

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Protesters outside OpenAI offices in San Francisco were sounding the alarm about AI posing “an existential threat to humanity itself,” as President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill could upend ...

"If we lose control of it, it will very likely cause human extinction." "We wanted to make a statement, we want to get the word out to the public about this new technology, which is very dangerous ...

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 ...