Learn how social connections may influence extinction risk in some wildlife species.

Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact ...

When considering mass extinctions, people often think of the asteroid strike that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. But life on Earth has experienced many extinction events. Now, a trove of fossils ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, and shallow seas shrank fast.

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...

The Earth has suffered five mass extinctions. Human activities are now accelerating climate change and the threat of the "Sixth Mass Extinction". We analyze the past to consider what we should do.

Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

Mass extinction events represent intervals of abrupt, large‐scale loss of biodiversity that have repeatedly reshaped life on Earth. These crises are commonly linked to dramatic environmental ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research.During the final stages of a ...