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

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 ...

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

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

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

Researchers from the University of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution and London’s Natural History Museum analysed fossil ...

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

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 ...

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

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