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

5 mass extinctions wiped out 65–96% of species on Earth, with major events including the Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, ...

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

By Stephen Le Quesne THE slender-billed curlew is a beautiful, striking bird of the curlew family. They stand proud with ...

‘Arguing that we are not experiencing a sixth mass extinction, or at least playing it down, gives support to those who would happily allow it to happen,’ wrote Cowie in the normally docile pages of ...

Scientists have found proof that a parasite still troubling oysters today was already up to its old tricks nearly half a ...

Many unique shark species are facing extinction - threatening ocean ecosystems and wiping out millions of years of evolution.

A new study led by the University of Oxford has revealed that reptiles confined to islands are facing a double jeopardy. Despite being more likely to ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a Manhattan-sized visitor, has scientists intrigued after its close solar pass. Its unusual ...

Forty-two thousand years ago, Earth’s magnetic field collapsed - the sky turned electric, radiation burned the surface, and humanity was forced underground. Scientists call it the Adams Event, a ...

However, with ATLAS’s recent trajectory, in a recent blog post, Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claimed that the “non-gravitational acceleration might be the technological signature of an internal engine,” ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has also dived into the debate about Manhattan-sized interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, visiting our solar system.Astronomers and space enthusiasts are equally intrigued by ...