Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

New clues from ancient seas are reshaping what we know about mass extinction and the future of our oceans. In a recent ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...

Given that we’re currently facing another extinction event, ... they only evolved in the first place because of mass extinction. Despite this chaos, life slowly diversified over the past 500m years.

Now, researchers have discovered a new mass extinction event, one that happened 2.05 billion years ago and likely killed between 80 percent and 99.5 percent of all of life on Earth. Fox News Media ...

Deeper in time, a mass extinction event that ended the Devonian Period, a geological era when life thrived on land for the first time, was also attributed to a hyperthermal event likely triggered ...

Even after the extinction event itself abated, the extinction rate remained high for 5.4 million years; the ecological recovery period required another 6.9 million years.

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending.

Now, researchers may have discovered a new mass extinction event, one that happened 2.05 billion years ago and likely killed between 80 percent and 99.5 percent of all of life on Earth.

Extinction has happened ever since life began. It is estimated that 98% of all the organisms that ever existed on Earth are now extinct. Clearly, becoming extinct is catastrophic for some species ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

How ‘Life on Our Planet’ dramatizes five global extinction events—or six, if you count the current one.