Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

Scientists have uncovered the shocking cause behind the mass extinction that wiped out ocean life 200 million years ago.

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

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.

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

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 prehistoric carbon spike turned oceans deadly and wiped out marine life. Scientists say today’s CO₂ rise could cause the ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the University of Birmingham has discovered that a rapid acidification of oceans, ...

Earth, triggering one of the most devastating mass extinctions in history. In a single moment, life on the planet changed ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

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