Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

Imagine creatures that have survived since the time of dinosaurs. Species like the tuatara, sturgeon, crocodile, hagfish, ...

What happens when the biodiversity witnessed by one generation fades into memory the next? These questions are crossroads at ...

Mass extinction events are infamous, entirely destroying many species in one fell swoop. But this particular extinction event ...

Lucas Atwell CC BY-SA 3.0 Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid slammed into our planet and began a mass ...

A 68-million-year-old Antarctic fossil revealed the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis iaai, a duck-sized diver with traits linking it to today’s waterfowl.

Here’s how paleontology helps explain mass extinctions and what it reveals about our planet’s past and future. Earth has experienced five major mass extinctions, each wiping out a significant portion ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave about the fluid dynamics of crowds, an early fossil of a modern bird and new data on how people's moods change through the day.

Jan. 16, 2025 — Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within ...

Over the past several decades ... that the Earth is now considered to be in a period known as the sixth mass extinction. As such threats have become more well known, governments and ...