As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that Earth re ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

A study published in 2023 suggests that nearly 1 million years ago, humanity almost ceased to exist. This potential mass extinction event was discovered by researchers when they began analyzing ...

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the ...

Credit: Smithsonian Institution About 66 million years ago—perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May —an asteroid smashed into our planet. The fallout was immediate and severe.

One such event was the Ordovician Mass Extinction, almost 400 million years ago, according to IFLScience. This period in time was extremely different from the world we know today, as life did not ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.

Two major ecological shifts shaped 60 million years of ungulate faunal evolution. Nature Communications, 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59974-x ...

Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the quahogs, cockles and their relatives – a scene far different from that of the seafloor 66 million years ago.

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.