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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

This sixth mass extinction, also referred to as the Holocene or Anthropocene extinction, is described as ongoing and caused by human activities. Hunting, overfishing, ...

Life on our planet has experienced many mass extinctions over its 4.5 billion years. ... And many experts argue that the Anthropocene age, the current period of human activity altering Earth, ...