Ultimately, the extinction of humans "would reveal something about the way we treated the Earth," said Basmajian. "It would ...

Over the past two billion years, this supercontinent cycle has produced at least three major supercontinents: Columbia, Rodinia, and Pangea. Each one formed as landmasses gradually collided, only to ...

By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered ...

Earth's rich biodiversity, ranging from the depths of the oceans to the highest mountain peaks, has not always been as ...

Reconstruction of ocean pH finds rapid acidification of oceans caused by massive and sudden CO2 rise caused a mass extinction event 201 million years ago ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...

Smithsonian researchers have linked discoveries within Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park with a previously unknown ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many technical and ethical hurdles, what is the real motivation?

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the University of Birmingham has discovered that a rapid acidification of oceans, ...

Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh invested $15 million in Colossal Biosciences to bring ...

The Great Dying led to the loss of forest cover, which eventually aided the event in lasting for five million years by disrupting the carbon cycle.