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

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to ...

And while every mass extinction has winners and losers ... A single genus groups one or more different but related species — for example the genus Canis includes wolves, dogs, coyotes and ...

Mass extinctions are periods in Earth’s history ... the bald eagle in the United States and the giant panda in China are examples of successful conservation efforts. These stories highlight ...

Is the biosphere today on the verge of anything like the mass extinctions of the geological ... dead because of their interrelationships -- for example, the loss of a pollinator can doom 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 ...

“This study provides yet another example of how complex and interconnected ... Some researchers today think we’re in the middle of a sixth mass extinction and that the end-Permian extinction ...

The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event released 20,500 gigatons of CO2. Humanity has generated 12 percent of that in 0.1 percent of the time. By Andrew Paul Published Jun 25, 2024 11:18 AM EDT Get the ...

For example, in today’s diatoms ... and may play a role in other ancient mass extinctions. “It’s one of the more novel hypotheses for the Ordovician extinction that I’ve heard,” says ...

One of these species—from the Colombian Andes—represents the earliest known example ... following the extinction of the dinosaurs. An artist's 3D rendering illustrating the mass extinction ...