Sharks might be the all time bullet-dodging champions. They’ve been around for about 450 million years, longer than trees, longer than the rings of Saturn, and longer than most of the other life on ...

5 mass extinctions wiped out 65–96% of species on Earth, with major events including the Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, and Cretaceous periods. Don’t expect correct change when paying with ...

For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some estimates, species are ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event. The eruptions spewed large amounts of greenhouse gases ...

A fire-bellied newt (Cynops ensicauda) photographed on Amami Island (Japan). A recent study suggested that the extinction of this and other genera was part of a mass extinction event that threatens ...

Mass extinctions, volcanism, and impacts: The geological extinction record : history, data, biases, and testing / Norman MacLeod -- Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions : an update / David P.G ...

We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology.

(CNN) — Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Oct. 15, 2015—Salamanders represent one of the most ancient forms of life. They survived three mass extinctions, including one that wiped out 96% ...

Could you run for 100 hours this year? How about just doing a little more than 15 minutes each day? In fact, these goals are essentially equivalent, but one certainly sounds more ambitious than the ...