Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

In a new Science Advances study, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have now proved that from this biological havoc, known as the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction ...

Five years after a killer comet triggers a near-mass extinction event, leaving the world unrecognizable, Gerard Butler ...

In a new Science Advances study, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have now proved that ...

Despite multiple mass extinctions, the frilled shark has managed to thrive for 100 million years. Today, it remains one of ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within.

In this framing, Trump’s actions are part of the emergence of a multipolar world, in which the great powers are the US, China ...

Now, evidence suggests that some of these spiral-shaped species did manage to persist after all. Recent analysis of ammonite ...

A fragmented comet was thought to have exploded over the Earth almost 13,000 years ago and could explain a massive ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...