What happened to these creatures during the extinction event and how they rebounded tells an important story, both about the ...

Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will conduct the Voyager Tardigrades mission on the ISS, studying how these resilient ...

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

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

From the vanishing of 10 billion snow crabs in Alaska's Bering Sea to the first mammal officially declared extinct due to ...

Extreme nuclear transients are 10 million times rarer than supernovae and emit the same amount of energy as 100 Suns.

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience ...

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

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Putting an end to a mass extinction sounds like an impossible task, but some researchers argue that doing so would be setting ...

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