Imagine creatures that have survived since the time of dinosaurs. Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, ...

The sixth mass extinction isn’t a distant threat—it’s happening now. Species are vanishing at an alarming rate due to habitat ...

Of all the species that have ever existed on Earth, 99% of them are gone. Most of those were wiped out during what are known as "Mass Extinction Events". Since life emerged on our planet, there have ...

Biodiversity is declining across the planet, but what about in Wisconsin, how do we measure it, and how can we stop it?

Land conversion is contributing to what scientists call Earth’s sixth mass extinction ... amount of habitat a species may have lost in the past. That’s something most similar tools don ...

Mass extinctions are very important to how life evolved on Earth. For example, when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, the resulting dinosaur extinction led mammals to... Researchers ...

Reduced contribution of sulfur to the mass extinction associated with the Chicxulub impact event. Nature Communications , 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-55145-6 Cite This Page : ...

Over the past several decades ... that the Earth is now considered to be in a period known as the sixth mass extinction. As such threats have become more well known, governments and ...

Mass extinctions have shaped the course of life on Earth ... These enduring creatures link us to a past long before humans ever walked the Earth and continue to shape the natural world we strive to ...

As a result, we are now causing the sixth mass extinction on the planet ... We have blown way past that to 419 ppm, the highest it has been in 800,000 years and perhaps the last 20 million ...