This graph plots extinction rates of marine animal families over the last 600 million years. The shaded band indicates the normal range of extinction rates, known as "background extinction." The ...

During long history of planet Earth, massive extinctions and violent climate changes are the norm. We’ve created this infographic to help you chart the rise and fall and rise of life on Earth ...

A new study finds that if fossil fuel emissions continue apace, the oceans could experience a mass extinction by 2300. There is still time to avoid it.

To establish a ‘mass extinction’, we first need to know what a normal rate of species loss is. from www.shutterstock.com The third and most devastating of the Big Five occurred at the end of ...

In broad strokes, the connection between mass extinctions and dramatic radiations of new species seems intuitive. Organisms have their particular niches, and extinction creates vacancies.

A reinterpretation of the fossil record suggests a new answer to one of evolution’s existential questions: whether global mass extinctions are just short-term diversions in life’s preordained ...

The scientists 60 Minutes spoke said that, without changing our behavior, this extinction crisis will become irreversible. Rebecca Shaw: None of the dinosaurs made it through the last mass extinction.

Global cooling has led to mass extinction. Mark Brennan/Flickr, CC BY-SA. This ancient crisis around 445m years ago saw two major waves of extinction, both caused by climate change associated with ...

It could take Earth’s freshwater ecosystems millions of years to recover from the damage inflicted upon them by human interference, according to a new study that compared the modern day rate of ...

We are in the beginning of a sixth mass extinction of animal species on Earth, and humans are the cause.