Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

Experts from Japan predict the sun will destroy all life on Earth no later than the year 1,000,002,021 as supercomputers set ...

Discover how crocodiles survived two mass extinctions thanks to their flexible diets and habitats, according to research.

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's ...

Researching their diet and ability to adapt to planetary upheavals to help protect the most vulnerable species today.

They argue for “Anthropocene”—from anthropo, for “man,” and cene, for “new”—because human-kind has caused mass extinctions of plant and animal species, polluted the oceans and ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

By Stephen Beech Crocodiles' ability to eat almost anything helped their ancestors survive two mass extinctions, suggests new ...

In a lecture in Rio, the director of the Center for Health and Human Performance at the University of London spoke about the ...

They get cooked and then they die. And since they form the very base layer of the food chain, you end up with a whole ecosystem collapse and a mass extinction. What's the risk? We've done the math.