More information: Stewart M. Edie et al, The end-Cretaceous mass extinction restructured functional diversity but failed to configure the modern marine biota, Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126 ...

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

One of the most notorious mass extinction events in modern times occurred on a hilltop in coastal Ecuador in the 1980s. Ninety species of plants known from nowhere else on Earth -- many of them ...

The mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period is perhaps the most famous in history. Over 66 million years ago, a 15-kilometer-wide asteroid struck what is now Mexico and changed life on ...

Habitat loss, overharvesting and climate change are raising the extinction risk for many species, amid what is often described as a modern mass extinction. As bivalves have overcome these destructive ...