A newly described dinosaur that appears to have persisted beyond a catastrophic die-off is forcing scientists to rethink how ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event. The eruptions spewed large amounts of greenhouse gases ...

An ancient predatory dinosaur that lived 220 million years ago, Maleriraptor kuttyi, redefines carnivorous dinosaurs' origin ...

Earth's largest mass extinction occurred about 252 million years ago, wiping out the majority of marine and terrestrial life, ...

The book says humanity first became aware of extinction when people realized that many organisms—plants, animals and ...

About 66 million years ago – perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May – an asteroid smashed into our planet. Even groups that weathered the catastrophe, such as mammals, fishes and flowering plants, ...

The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event, marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods approximately 66 million years ago, stands as one of the most profound ...

(CNN) — Humans have wiped out more than 100 species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass ...

Our work to discover, save, monitor and protect the most threatened, whether visible or not, is unwavering. Together we can ...