Without sharks, ocean ecosystems would become unbalanced, leading to overpopulation of some species and the collapse of ...

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

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

The world is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction, with potentially thousands of species lost every year.

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

Ever since the world was formed more than four billion years ago, it has seen a number of mass extinctions that have almost ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

Randy Robbins, a California-based wildlife photographer, said his camera captured rare footage of the "highly threatened" Sierra Nevada Red Fox.

Isolation allows creatures to thrive as their relatives perish due to the threats present on much larger landmasses ...

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Earth's history is marked by devastating mass extinctions, each one reshaping life as we know it. Now, experts warn that humanity may be triggering the next catastrophic event. The rate of species ...

It's safe to say that most of us are familiar with the concept of mass extinction. But this is by no means a recent phenomenon. For millions of years, Earth has been through extinction events that ...