Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

A team led by UdeM researchers confirms a fifth potentially habitable planet around L 98-59, a red dwarf 35 light-years away.

Ultimately, the extinction of humans "would reveal something about the way we treated the Earth," said Basmajian. "It would also show us that the world we have today can't survive without us and that ...

'Lord of the Rings' director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand's lost moa Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Filmmaker Peter Jackson owns one of the largest private collections of bones of an extinct New Zealand bird called the moa. His fascination with the flightless ostrich-like ...

The huge climate changes back then occurred during the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction – sometimes referred to as the "Great Dying," which happened around 252 million years ago, leading to ...

'The Great Dying' mass extinction was a warning from the trees, study says As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that ...

Some have even argued that these are warning signs that we are living through a sixth mass extinction.

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.  ...