Tropical reefs might look like inanimate rock, but these colorful seascapes are built by tiny jellyfish-like animals called ...

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

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

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Collagen from a fossilized bone fragment can identify the animal it came from. And, some new info about our galaxy’s eventual ...

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

What can modern-day crocodiles, alligators, and gharials tell scientists about how to survive mass extinctions? Well, quite a bit. When researching what it takes to survive, scientists have overlooked ...

These mass extinctions—defined as events that eliminate over 75% of species in a geologically short interval—have reshaped life on our planet repeatedly. While these events are devastating, they also ...

These mass extinctions—defined as events that eliminate over 75% of species in a geologically short interval—have reshaped life on our planet repeatedly. While these events are devastating, they also ...

the landmark climate deal designed that pledged to keep warming below 2°C or, ideally, 1.5°C. While the latter goal… There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened ...