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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The human-caused changes to our planet that are driving the crisis include pollution, habitat destruction like deforestation, industrial-scale agriculture land use, and, of course, wrapped up in all ...

For scientists and conservationists, knowing how species survive planetary crises can lead to more effective protection of vulnerable species.

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

Researchers examined teeth and skulls of 99 extinct crocodylomorph species and 20 living crocodylian species to reconstruct their dietary ecology and identify characteristics that helped some groups ...

Scientists from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have compared several methods for plant diversity reconstruction using pollen data. By analyzing modern ...

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 ...