A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter ...

A recent climate study from the University of Wollongong suggests that Homo floresiensis, the small early human species from ...

The sex of many turtles, crocodilians, and other reptiles is determined by the temperature at which their eggs incubate.

Like corn kernels in slowly heating oil, the orca sightings began sparse and unpredictable. But at some imperceptible moment, ...

The Canary Islands may represent the “missing link” in a global pandemic killing sea urchins. Sea urchins help build and maintain marine habitats in much the same way that large plant-eating animals ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched as it may seem.

It had quite an impact — striking with the force of 10 million atomic bombs. Sixty-six million years ago, the asteroid that slammed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula caused a mass extinction ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

Earth’s history is marked by periods of immense destruction, where vast numbers of species vanished in a short time. These catastrophic events, known as mass extinctions, have reshaped life on our ...

Could we be on the verge of the sixth mass extinction? To better understand what’s to come for life on Earth–and the current harm we’re doing to our own environment–we have to look into the past. But, ...

Kenneth Lacovara, Ph.D., has spent years traveling the world looking for fossils and the extinction layer–a sediment layer covering the world that signifies the end of the Cretaceous period that ...