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

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

A tiny treasure buried in 236-million-year-old poop. It might not be as glamorous as a bug in amber, but this dung fossil, ...

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

And while every mass extinction has winners and losers ... A single genus groups one or more different but related species — for example the genus Canis includes wolves, dogs, coyotes and ...

Is the biosphere today on the verge of anything like the mass extinctions of the geological ... dead because of their interrelationships -- for example, the loss of a pollinator can doom the ...

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

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

The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event released 20,500 gigatons of CO2. Humanity has generated 12 percent of that in 0.1 percent of the time. By Andrew Paul Published Jun 25, 2024 11:18 AM EDT Get the ...

One of these species—from the Colombian Andes—represents the earliest known example ... following the extinction of the dinosaurs. An artist's 3D rendering illustrating the mass extinction ...