250 million years ago, catastrophic volcanic eruptions plunged Earth’s oceans into a toxic, oxygen-starved crisis that erased ...

The greatest mass extinction of all time was triggered by climatic conditions that are beginning to reappear today, ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction ...

The dodo is often viewed as the classic example of extinction and obsolescence. However, the truth is that countless species have met similar fates. Here’s one bird whose epoch ended much in the same ...

Marine life had to re-evolve after two major extinctions in order for shrimp and whales and other sea life as we know it to come into being. But what is remarkable, according to an article published ...

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A Stanford-led study has provided the strongest evidence yet that warming oceans and declining oxygen levels caused Earth's ...

According to new research published in the journal Science this week, plant and animal extinctions are happening at a rate one thousand times greater than before humans walked the Earth. Stuart Pimm ...

Great apes, human's closest living relatives, are knocking on the door of extinction. Humans have hunted great apes, which include bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, destroyed their ...