New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Is the biosphere today on the verge of anything like the mass extinctions of the geological past? Could some equivalent of meteorite impacts or dramatic climate change be underway, as humankind's ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson estimated that 30,000 species per year (or three species per hour) are being driven to extinction.

Whether extraterrestrial impacts or drastic climate changes are to blame, mass extinctions are evolutionary events that alter the history of life. Which species or groups survive a mass extinction ...

But a different mass extinction was responsible for the success of the dinosaurs. Around 201 million years ago, incredible volcanic outpourings in the supercontinent Pangaea shook up life on Earth ...