A new study led by Dartmouth College may finally settle a long-standing debate over what caused five major mass extinctions

Ordovician–Silurian mass extinction, illustration. The Ordovician–Silurian extinction event, also known as the Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME) around 443 million years ago, 85% of all species on Earth went extinct.

Ordovician–Silurian mass extinction, illustration. The Ordovician–Silurian extinction event, also known as the Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME) around 443 million years ago, 85% of all species on Earth went extinct.

Sobering new report says world is failing to grasp the extent of threats posed by biodiversity loss and the climate crisis

It was a little over 20 years ago when I saw a slender-billed curlew. I was in Morocco; the bird, lanky and reasonably slim in the beak department, was feeding on a patch of wetland decorated with wil

Stunning fossils: The seven most amazing ever found - New Scientist

A study from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) found that hundreds of land animals could go extinct in the next 20 years.

Late Triassic terrestrial fauna. Drawing by Davide Bonadonna.

The passenger pigeon, the Tasmanian tiger, and the Baiji (Yangtze river dolphin) are among the most recognized casualties of what many experts refer to as the sixth mass extinction. This is a consequence of human activities leading to the vanishing of vertebrate animal species at rates hundreds of t