An artificial-intelligence model trained on nearly four million fossils suggests that three of the extinction events might ...

Whether a species has just freshly emerged, or it has been around for millions of years does not dictate its vulnerability. This has been the assumption of an old debate on whether species' age plays ...

A 113-million-year-old marine murder mystery may finally be solved. Using chemical clues locked inside microscopic fossils, Northwestern University scientists found evidence that ocean acidification ...

Fossil evidence from the Denver Basin indicates a significant fungal bloom after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction.

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the "sixth mass extinction"—the first to be caused by human activities. Five earlier mass extinctions, caused by dramatic but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian ...

More than 250 million years ago, life on Earth faced its most devastating crisis — a global event so severe that it wiped out nearly three-quarters of life on land and an even larger share in the ...

A video from the Chinese Academy of Sciences about the 512-million-year-old Huayuan Biota fossils that survived a major mass extinction. These marine animals survived a mass extinction 513 million ...

The study of extinction dynamics in the fossil record integrates patterns of biodiversity loss with environmental and biotic drivers across geological time. Fluctuations in global diversity often ...

A New Zealand cave has revealed million-year-old fossils, including 12 ancient bird species and four frog species. Experts believe the discovery shows how drastically New Zealand’s forest culture has ...

Scientists are increasingly worried we may be witnessing the start of the “sixth mass extinction” – the first to be caused by human activities. Five earlier mass extinctions, caused by dramatic but ...