Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass ...

For years, headlines have warned that Earth is entering its sixth mass extinction, but a new study suggests these fears may ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

The planet is on the cusp of triggering the sixth mass extinction event. Conserving a small percentage of land could make all ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data.

The term “mass extinction” conjures up apocalyptic images of the world coming to an end, but a massive event like this can be ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research.During the final stages of a ...

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