Research data suggests humans may have nearly gone extinct almost 1 million years ago, but scientists aren't sure why.

A chilling new assessment suggests our planet is hurtling towards an unprecedented loss of life, with human activity squarely ...

Throughout Earth’s history, there have been several global extinction events, wiping out large portions of life across the ...

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience ...

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

Co-founded by renowned entrepreneur Ben Lamm, Texas-based biotech and genetic engineering company Colossal Biosciences is ...

Putting an end to a mass extinction sounds like an impossible task, but some researchers argue that doing so would be setting ...

Learn how researchers used mass spectrometry of collagen to successfully identify some of Australia’s megafauna.

If you're an animal living through a mass extinction, it's best to be one that's found a unique way to make a living.A new analysis of the species ...

Study by UChicago, Smithsonian, UK Natural History Museum challenges assumptions about survival after global catastrophe ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

"For example, [they have] subterranean structures ... These findings have led to some debate over whether the greatest mass extinction ever deserves the moniker on land. "I will call it a crisis ...