Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major mass extinction events. Each one took a considerable fraction of all the ...

Imagine a world where all the land ice on Earth melts. It might sound like a scenario for a science fiction movie, but the possibility is becoming increasingly real due to the impacts of climate ...

Around 252 million years ago, life on Earth suffered its most catastrophic blow to date: a mass extinction event known as the “Great Dying” that wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has ...