New clues from ancient seas are reshaping what we know about mass extinction and the future of our oceans. In a recent ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending.

Deeper in time, a mass extinction event that ended the Devonian Period, a geological era when life thrived on land for the first time, was also attributed to a hyperthermal event likely triggered ...

Extinction has happened ever since life began. It is estimated that 98% of all the organisms that ever existed on Earth are now extinct. Clearly, becoming extinct is catastrophic for some species ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

How ‘Life on Our Planet’ dramatizes five global extinction events—or six, if you count the current one.

Virginia Tech researches found 80% of life was wiped out nearly 550 million years ago, which would make it the earliest known mass extinction on Earth. (Alex Boersma) ...

(CNN) — A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period ...

It was a time of significant changes for life on Earth, including the extinction of some It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...

Deeper in time, a mass extinction event that ended the Devonian Period, a geological era when life thrived on land for the first time, was also attributed to a hyperthermal event likely triggered ...