Earth's rich biodiversity, ranging from the depths of the oceans to the highest mountain peaks, has not always been as ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

It's safe to say that most of us are familiar with the concept of mass extinction. But this is by no means a recent phenomenon. For millions of years, Earth has been through extinction events that ...

By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered ...

Scientists have identified mysterious 'blobs' about 1,200 miles under the Earth's surface that could cause massive volcanic ...

The Mesozoic Era began with the Earth’s worst-ever extinction event.It is referred to as the Permian-Triassic extinction event because it spanned these geological Periods. You may also see it ...

The constant deluge of bad news about rising global temperatures and their impacts can make it feel like the world is ending.

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research.During the final stages of ...

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova rate of stars closest to the sun in the past 1 billion years.