I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Then, a six-mile-wide asteroid struck Mexico’s Yucatán at 43,200 mph, releasing energy beyond all human-made explosives combined and reshaping life on Earth. Unlike many species that survived the ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction Henry Gee. St. Martin’s, $29 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-32558-7 ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

Zion National Park debuts a new exhibit exploring the End Triassic Extinction, based on research conducted within the park’s ...

Earth's history is marked by devastating mass extinctions, each one reshaping life as we know it. Now, experts warn that ...

Learn about the mass extinction event 66 million years ago and the evidence for what ended the age of the dinosaurs.

Once a fringe fear, p(doom) — the probability AI could wipe out humanity — is gaining traction among tech leaders, sparking ...

66 million years ago, an asteroid caused a mass extinction that wiped out around 70% of species, including many marine creatures. Remarkably, bivalves, despite losing many species, retained their ...