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 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 ...

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 ...

And many experts argue that the Anthropocene age, the current period of human activity altering Earth, is causing a sixth. Paleontologists track mass extinctions by studying rock samples from ...

The human component of this story—the fact ... That’s a question I can’t answer. The other five mass extinctions – how long did it take the planet to recover from those?