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

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

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

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 ...

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

Learn how researchers used mass spectrometry of collagen to successfully identify some of Australia's megafauna.

If you're an animal living through a mass extinction, it's best to be one that's found a unique way to make a living.A new analysis of the species ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago.

Study by UChicago, Smithsonian, UK Natural History Museum challenges assumptions about survival after global catastrophe ...