New research suggests that dinosaur populations were thriving in North America before the asteroid impact 66 million years ...

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

The first analysis of recent extinctions across plants and animals finds that, contrary to previous studies, the rate at ...

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

Few would doubt that more and more animals and plants are currently going extinct. One analysis comes to a different ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

Fossil evidence from New Mexico shows dinosaurs were still strong, diverse, and thriving before their sudden extinction 66 ...

From Oct 11, visitors stepping into a hall at the Science Centre Singapore will be transported more than 400 million years ...

Researchers have warned that the findings should not be used as a ‘carte blanche’ for destructive human behaviour. View on ...

Could we be on the verge of the sixth mass extinction? To better understand what’s to come for life on Earth–and the current harm we’re doing to our own environment–we have to look into the past. But, ...