A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

Paleobotanist Dana Royer says there is evidence the planet will heal but it takes millions of years to recover. And each ...

The study claims that Earth's continents are drifting and will one day form a single supercontinent. This will be accompanied ...

The Ordovician period and its impact spike correspond ... and a huge, marine-centered mass extinction second in scope only to the “Great Dying.” According to the paper, this was the coldest ...

Here are four animals that managed to persist through Earth’s mass extinction events. Additionally, horseshoe crabs have a reproductive strategy that includes spawning in large numbers ...

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 ...

A new study reveals the devastating impact of harsh volcanic winters that marked the end of the Triassic period and ...

This asteroid impact caused a global mass extinction but also created ideal ... The True Global Impact of Species-Loss Caused by Humans Is Far Greater Than Expected Oct. 3, 2024 — The extinction ...

When an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, it set off a devastating mass extinction. The dinosaurs (except for a few birds) all died out, along with lots of the mammals. But some small ...

We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimated that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction.

This theory sheds light on the presence of an unusual density of impact craters around the equator dating back to the Ordovician ... periods and biggest mass extinction events.