A recently published study puts forth a new theory that volcanic eruptions combined with widespread ocean detoxification pushed Earth's biology to a tipping point in the Late Devonian era, triggering ...

After years of detective work, University geosciences professor Gerta Keller and her colleagues have found that an intensive period of volcanic eruptions and a series of asteroid impacts likely ended ...

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Some extinct mammals from Australia's Mammoth Cave included (from left) a giant long-nosed echidna, a short-faced kangaroo, a wombat-like marsupial and a Tasmanian thylacine. - Peter Schouten Recent ...

WASHINGTON -- A steep decline in birds, butterflies and native plants in Britain supports the theory that humans are pushing the natural world into the Earth's sixth big extinction event and the ...

Giant dragonflies once roamed earth’s skies. New research upends the textbook theory of why they went extinct. Insects first took to the skies about 350 million years ago, some 200 million years ...

Why did the dinosaurs die? Sure, you could go with careful, rational reasons, or you can go for the totally insane theories! Or, maybe they were all eaten by the ever-adorable Edison Quillsworth ...