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

Are we really living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction? :globe_showing_Europe-Africa::fire: This powerful 1-minute video dives into the growing evidence that humans are driving an extinction ...

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

A new study of ancient shells reveals that ocean ecosystems maintained balance after the dinosaur extinction 66 million years ...

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

What happened to these creatures during the extinction event and how they rebounded tells an important story, both about the ...

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

A fossilized colony of small burrowing reptiles that lived some 250 million years ago was recently found in South Africa.

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

Sauropods were the largest land-living animals of all time. Finding the traces of a sauropod’s last meal is nothing short of ...