The Earth has gone through many major events over the course of hundreds of millions of years. Some of the most significant ...

Fossil tracks from 545 million years ago suggest complex life forms were already crawling around before the Cambrian ...

The endangered kakapo is a flightless bird native to New Zealand. Its population is growing, but its parasites have dwindled. Could that spell trouble?

Rainy, damp weather along the eastern United States in summer 2025 has one upside: Fireflies love it. "Fireflies and their prey (snails, slugs, worms) need moisture, so years with high rainfall ...

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 ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.

Psilocybin, a psychedelic compound contained in some varieties of mushrooms, has recently been found to be promising for the treatment of some neuropsychiatric disorders, including depression ...

The Jurassic Games: Extinction takes an adventurous bite out of reality-television culture, but does so with choppy storytelling and not-quite-polished visuals.

For most of human history, extinction has been understood as an immutable fact of nature—a one-way door that, once closed, could never be reopened. Species disappear, their genetic innovations ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.

Traditionally, the duration of LOME was estimated at 1–2 million years. However, the use of advanced high-precision zircon U-Pb dating techniques shows that the extinction occurred on a much ...