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

Nearly one million years ago, humanity came perilously close to disappearing. A new study reveals that our ancestors may have ...

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

White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, more than 15,000 years ago. The ...

White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, over 15,000 years ago. The ...

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

Scientists are warning that the next mass extinction event could be underway as species vanish at alarming rates due to habitat loss, climate change, and human impact—threatening global ...

And many experts argue that the Anthropocene age, the current period of human activity altering Earth, is causing a sixth. Paleontologists track mass extinctions by studying rock samples from ...

The human component of this story—the fact ... That’s a question I can’t answer. The other five mass extinctions – how long did it take the planet to recover from those?

The human age we live in has impacted nearly all life on our ... led some scientists to call our period the Anthropocene Extinction, along with the Sixth Mass Extinction. In the past, the giant ...

A recent study has painted a concerning picture of Earth's distant future, suggesting that extreme heat could lead to a mass extinction event ... be suitable for human life if continental ...