As Earth's temperature rises sharply, the threat of a global mass extinction has loomed. But U of A researchers say that fear ...

For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some estimates, species are vanishing at up to a thousand times the natural background rate. Yet a new ...

Chimneys spew pollution into the atmosphere in a ruined landscape. Within a human lifetime, concentrations of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere could reach levels associated with 19 "mass extinctions" that ...

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Hunter Biden is sounding an alarm about the next wave of automation, warning that artificial intelligence and advanced ...

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

Extinction is a natural byproduct of life and evolution, but an alarming number of species have entered the dustbin of history thanks to human activity — which is anything but natural. "The solution ...

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

(CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of species from ...

The exact moment when Earth’s most catastrophic mass extinction ended the dinosaurs’ reign 65 million years ago has remained ...

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 ...