Animal populations have fallen by 73% in some species over the past 50 years. Are we on a fast track to widespread species ...

Scientists Found What May Be Earth's First Mass Extinction and It Was More Catastrophic Than Anyone Realized ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event.... How did these species survive mass extinction events?

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, and shallow seas shrank fast. Ocean chemistry also shifted hard. In what ...

Recent advancements in synchrotron-based micro-computed tomography (microCT) have enabled researchers to digitally ...

Researchers identified an early mammal ancestor whose eggs may have helped it survive the Great Dying 250 million years ago.

Ancient lycophytes may have survived extreme heat during Earth’s worst extinction using a rare photosynthesis method.

A handful of plankton fossils buried in a small chunk of rock show that the oceans were teeming with life before the Late ...

Mass extinction is not just a theory; Earth has already gone through five of them, including the event about 65 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs. New research continues to warn that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some extinct mammals from Australia's Mammoth Cave included (from left) a giant long-nosed echidna, a short-faced kangaroo, a ...

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...