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

Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the ...

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

The Earth is rapidly warming, and similar climate upheavals over 300 million years ago once triggered massive fluctuations in ...

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

Life rebounded from each of the Big Five mass extinctions throughout Earth’s history, eventually punching through past diversity highs. The rich fossil record and spectacular ecological ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

Learn more about how the surprising survival of marine ecosystems after the last mass extinction can help us better prepare ...

From the paleontological perspective, mass extinctions are something that can only be definitively confirmed in the past tense. They are defined based on the proportion of species that existed ...

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