Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

A 70-year-old man from Massachusetts was one of several people killed in a tragic Fourth of July firework accidents, as ...

Felton Davis offered thousands of strangers a close-up view of the Moon and planets orbiting New York City. Now he’s passing the telescope on.

Putting an end to a mass extinction sounds like an impossible task, but some researchers argue that doing so would be setting our ambitions too low ...

And, those like Ceballos who argue a major mass extinction has already begun, point to calculations that indicate we could reach that grim, 75 percent mile marker in just a few centuries.

You will find this mass extinction event referred to in a few different ways including the end-Triassic mass extinction (ETME) and Triassic-Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME).

Two nearby explosive massive star deaths, or supernovas, may have triggered mass extinction events in Earth's distant past, new research suggests.

Has Life on Earth Survived More Than Five Mass Extinctions? Scientists aren’t just arguing whether humans are causing a sixth mass extinction event now, but whether many more occurred in the past ...

The disappearance of species is destructive, but it’s also one of the most natural, creative forces on Earth.