We’ve all been told that the largest extinction event on Earth was caused by a meteor, but what if that’s not the case? In ...

Earth is no stranger to mass extinction events – it’s had five so far, and some scientists have even claimed we’re in the ...

The geological layer marks the point when the non-avian dinosaurs and many other species were killed by a cataclysmic event.

According to leading scientists and experts, Earth is entering its 6th Mass Extinction Event — and it’s our fault. Humans ...

Here are four animals that managed to persist through Earth’s mass extinction events. Additionally, horseshoe crabs have a reproductive strategy that includes spawning in large numbers ...

A rumor circulated online in late 2024 claiming Elon Musk once pondered the future of humanity facing two options: an ...

Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to be confined to one planet, until some eventual extinction event." A rumor circulated online in late 2024 claiming Elon Musk once ...

An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp change in the diversity ...

This can be seen also in the geological record. Five big mass extinction events are recognized by paleontologists. At the end of the Ordovician some 443 million years ago, when an estimated 86% of ...

Could the greatest extinction be related to the greatest volcanic eruptions? Renne, an expert at determining the ages of rocks, has been trying to work out the timing of the events. His lab is ...

award-winning journalist Barkha Dutt shared media survival strategies with a Duke audience on the heels of a story recently published in The New Yorker that asked if the journalism industry is ...