Homo sapiens, a sentient and potentially sapient species, is bringing about a mass extinction of life on Earth. Yet scientists are quibbling over whether it’s the sixth mass extinction in the history ...

What happened to these creatures during the extinction event and how they rebounded tells an important story, both about the ...

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NEW MEXICO CONSORTIUM NEWS RELEASE Dr. Spencer Lucas, Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and ...

Tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, but these colorful seascapes are built by tiny jellyfish-like animals called ...

"I don't think it is an overstatement to say that morale among U.S.-based scientists is at an all-time low." Since January, ...

For millions of years, large herbivores like mastodons and giant deer shaped the Earth's ecosystems, which astonishingly ...

From the vanishing of 10 billion snow crabs in Alaska's Bering Sea to the first mammal officially declared extinct due to ...

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 ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...