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

a huge meteor smashed into Earth and caused something called the "Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event" which, in normal ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

Was it a single extinction event or a series of catastrophic changes? Exactly which animals were affected? Here, we will look at the animals that lived on the Earth during one particular ...

Discover the migration routes of ancient reptiles and how they thrived in a nearly lifeless environment after the mass ...

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to survive a mass extinction, your best bet might be to carve out a truly unique ...

Research data suggests humans may have nearly gone extinct almost 1 million years ago, but scientists aren't sure why.

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world ...

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

It's called Apophis. The asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth on Friday the 13th in April of 2029. That chance depends on it being hit by another asteroid or some other object in space at ...

So, I say we get moving. - Let's do it. (pensive music) - Scientists agree that Earth has seen five mass extinction events in its history, with the end Permian being the worst. Some believe we ...