Ever since the first dinosaur fossils were identified in the 19th century, scientists have been trying to figure out why ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

At least five times, a catastrophe has killed off the vast majority of Earth’s species. As scientists say we’re in a sixth mass extinction, what can we learn from the past?

Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville predicted the Big, Beautiful Bill would cause a "mass extinction event" for the ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said during a recent interview that the Republican tax and spending bill, which ...

A mass extinction event is when species vanish much faster than they are replaced. This is usually defined as about 75% of the world's species being lost in a short period of geological time - less ...

Major mass extinctions result in "more than 60% species loss," Kaiho said. However, "minor mass extinction [events] occurred more frequently." In the new study, published July 22 in the journal ...