The world and its ecosystems have been around for a long time — so long that the first mass extinction occurred “just shy” of ...

Our new study reveals that the oceans rapidly heated up all across the world’s low and mid latitudes. Normally, it gets ...

You’ll likely want to add this series to your DVD collection. You have Band of Brothers and The Pacific on DVD and Blu-ray, ...

A DVD formatted for the NTSC market. Prior to digital television, NTSC and PAL were the two major analog TV formats, each with different frame rates and lines of resolution. When DVDs were ...

Let’s start with a clear definition of what constitutes a mass extinction. Unlike regular extinctions, which occur at a steady background rate — about 10% of species lost every million years — mass ...

A new study links the largest mass extinction, which occurred 252 million years ago during the Permian-Triassic period, to ...

Increasingly, researchers are doing the numbers, and saying, yes, if present trends continue, a mass extinction is very likely underway. The evidence is pieced together from details drawn from all ...

“This mass extinction event in the Ordovician, this happened hundreds of millions of years before the first dinosaurs ever evolved,” said David Wright, an assistant curator at the Sam Noble Museu ...