Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

The new study deciphered the single-most greatest mass extinction on Earth driven by a natural calamity that still exists.

A supercomputer simulation has unveiled a shocking glimpse into Earth’s distant future: a world where the continents merge ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...