New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

Since the beginning of time, Earth has created life and then wiped out most of it in catastrophic, ultra-destructive moments.

Researchers have gone back in time to find an extinction event that predates all other known events of their kind. The extinction event, which occurred during the Ediacaran Period roughly 550 million ...

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Fossil evidence of a diverse plant ecosystem that thrived in a Chinese desert during the world’s largest mass extinction could offer insight into how humans could survive a future great dying event.

The murky world at the bottom of the oceans is now a little clearer, thanks to a new study that tracks the evolution of marine sediment layers across hundreds of millions of years. In the first and ...

During the Permian-Triassic extinction, Inostrancevia, a saber-toothed predator, emerged as a dominant force. Fossils discovered in Russia and South Africa reveal its transcontinental existence and ...

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