Dinosaurs ruled Earth for millions of years, but according to the most widely accepted theory, a massive asteroid wiped them ...

Sea urchins face extinction worldwide due to a deadly "pandemic" beneath the waves, warns new research. Scientists say the ...

About 65 million years ago, a mass extinction event occurred, wiping out more than 75% of all species on Earth. There have ...

Extinction Rebellion is a global environmental movement rebelling against the corporate destruction of a liveable planet.

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

A new study finds that , amid ongoing climate change, extinction rates have slowed, currently being at their lowest levels in ...

As Earth's temperature rises sharply, the threat of a global mass extinction has loomed. But U of A researchers say that fear is flawed, although habitat conservation ...

Almost all life on land and in the ocean was wiped out during "The Great Dying," a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests that the Great ...

Museum researchers reconstructed the evolutionary history of stony corals over the past 460 million years, providing insights into how the animals may fare in the future Jack Tamisiea A colony of ...

It had quite an impact — striking with the force of 10 million atomic bombs. Sixty-six million years ago, the asteroid that slammed into what is now the Yucatán Peninsula caused a mass extinction ...

(Phys.org) —Microscopic fish teeth may carry a message of hope from an ecological upheaval in the distant past, scientists at Yale University and the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) have ...

The newly passed federal ban on hemp-based products containing THC could have a significant negative effect on the Texas economy, hitting a wide range of Texas industries that rely on hemp in any form ...