It’s quite remarkable that a class of animals that turn up their toes at a bit of pollution could survive the asteroid strike ...

An asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous Period ended the dinosaurs, but earlier smaller extinctions dramatically set the ...

Though the End-Permian mass extinction event is predicted to have killed off 80% of all life on Earth, new research is ...

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President Donald Trump is holding a rally in Michigan on Tuesday to mark the first 100 days of his second term, staging his ...

Many experts think a so-called “mass extinction event” — only the sixth in the last half-billion years — is already under way. The most recent saw the end of the Cretaceous period some 66 ...

Fossils discovered in China indicate that the End-Permian mass extinction, which wiped out 80% of life on Earth, may not have been as devastating for plants as previously thought. Researchers ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction eliminated almost 90 percent of all species. The devastating loss came after violent volcanic eruptions throughout the Siberian Traps. The eruptions fuelled lethal ...

“Hell ants disappear from the fossil record in the late Cretaceous 78 million years ago, and fossil deposits close to the K-Pg extinction boundary 66 million years ago as of yet don't have any ...

Imagine a world before dinosaurs, where the land was ruled by toothy predators with a terrifying bite. Long before the famous ...

Temperatures are "markedly higher" than what they should be for this time of year, as at the end of April it is usually about 12C ... "So, it's likely that the temperatures for this event will be ...

This rapid change of apex predators shows the instability and ecological turmoil of the Permian-Triassic extinction event. Fossils reveal the predator's desperate struggle to survive Earth's worst ...