Mass extinction events represent intervals of abrupt, large‐scale loss of biodiversity that have repeatedly reshaped life on Earth. These crises are commonly linked to dramatic environmental ...

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.

Learn more about how the surprising survival of marine ecosystems after the last mass extinction can help us better prepare for the next one. Stephanie Edwards is the marketing coordinator at Discover ...

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 ...

It's safe to say that most of us are familiar with the concept of mass extinction. But this is by no means a recent ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass extinction event.... How did these species survive mass extinction events?

Sharks might be the all time bullet-dodging champions. They’ve been around for about 450 million years, longer than trees, longer than the rings of Saturn, and longer than most of the other life on ...