Scientists Found What May Be Earth's First Mass Extinction and It Was More Catastrophic Than Anyone Realized ...

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

For eons, Earth has experienced dramatic shifts, punctuated by five catastrophic mass extinction events that wiped out vast swathes of life. Now, a growing chorus of scientists is sounding the alarm: ...

Rural Pine River columnists talk about the rapid decline in plants, animals and insects that adversely affects our planet.

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the Great Dying – this was the most catastrophic of the five mass extinction events ...

Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass extinctions have occurred, with five major mass extinctions being particularly ...

Around 66 million years ago, Earth endured a mass extinction event that marked the end of the Cretaceous and the start of the Paleogene period. Roughly 75% of all species vanished, including every non ...

New York City is celebrating its 56th annual Earth Day on April 22, and events around the city will kick off this weekend. The day, founded by U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, is meant to ...

A pair of Sacabambaspis fish, around 35 cm in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an armored head. No fossils of animals like Sacabambaspis from after the Late Ordovician Mass ...

Celebrate Earth Day with fairs, cleanups and hikes throughout Bergen, Passaic, Morris and Essex counties.

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. What’s more, many other cosmic phenomena affect our planet ...