Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the ...

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

The researchers suggest that the ancient population may have been reduced to roughly 1,200 humans. Overall, the researchers ...

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

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 ...

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

Protesters outside OpenAI offices in San Francisco were sounding the alarm about AI posing “an existential threat to humanity itself,” as President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill could upend ...

"If we lose control of it, it will very likely cause human extinction." "We wanted to make a statement, we want to get the word out to the public about this new technology, which is very dangerous ...

They inhabit deep marine caves at depths between 150-700 meters (500-2,300 feet), which may explain how they evaded human detection for so long. Their deep-water habitat likely provided refuge during ...

They inhabit deep marine caves at depths between 150-700 meters (500-2,300 feet), which may explain how they evaded human detection for so long. Their deep-water habitat likely provided refuge during ...

Two important concepts in evolutionary biology, mutualism and altruism, were first made famous by the colorful anarchist prince Peter Kropotkin. He argued that cooperation could be an equally ...