The earth has experienced five mass extinctions, and some experts believe we may be on the brink of the next one. With ...

Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

Ultimately, the extinction of humans "would reveal something about the way we treated the Earth," said Basmajian. "It would also show us that the world we have today can't survive without us and that ...

Earth's biodiversity is in crisis. An imminent "sixth mass extinction" threatens beloved and important wildlife. It also ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

Turtles may look slow and quiet, but they’re actually some of the oldest animals on Earth. They’ve been around for over 200 ...

Gigantic hidden fortresses discovered 1,800 miles underground in Earth's mantle, rewrite how the planet's interior works.

From publisher's website. "A vivid tour of Earth's Big Five mass extinctions, the past worlds lost with each, and what they all can tell us about our not-too-distant future. Was it really an asteroid ...

Scientists call them “living fossils,” creatures whose bodies resemble ancient ancestors recorded in stone. They’ve endured ...

Severe threats to the health of humans and other species derive from degradation of Earth's life-support systems, particularly the impacts of climate change. Researchers and practitioners in clinical ...

In a world, where dopamine hits come in a span of 30-seconds, our attention spans are continuously reducing - all thanks to ...