In a groundbreaking study, new fossil evidence has shed light on the mysterious 5-million-year heatwave that followed Earth’s ...

After Earth’s greatest extinction, it wasn’t just volcanic fury that kept the planet hot; it was the death of tropical ...

Although separated by hundreds of millions of years and entirely different triggers, the Great Dying and today’s Sixth Mass ...

Humans may have caused the mass extinction of species for thousands of years now. And a new World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report says the elimination continues, as humanity has wiped out 60 per of ...

We are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction with one million species at risk, according to a new report. This time around it is the result of human-made causes like climate change.

Earth has done without corals before, once, for 10 million years after a particularly bad extinction event, which is hopeful news in its way, but cold comfort for humans.

Based on what is known about previous mass extinctions, "we often see biodiversity recovering after major mass extinctions within roughly 2-5 million years," said Erin Saupe, a palaeobiologist at ...

Oct 10, 2018 - Oct 20, 2018 | 8:00 PM Add to Calendar 10-10-2018 20:00 20-10-2018 20:00 America/Toronto A Brief History of Human Extinction 2178. A creeping fungal plague has rendered the surface ...

Mass extinction will have far-reaching, potentially cataclysmic consequences for humankind. António Guterres was right: we are waging a war on nature. Respecting and following the leadership of ...