In fact, the last great extinction event in the history of life on Earth could be our fault. Human activities such as habitat destruction, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation of species ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

(CNN) — Around 252 million years ago, life on Earth suffered its most catastrophic blow to date: a mass extinction event known as the “Great Dying” that wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has ...

A new study reveals that a major cooling event 34 million years ago caused staggered marine extinctions, not a single global ...