Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...
Scientists debate whether current extinction rates mark a planet-wide crisis or reflect a more nuanced reality, highlighting ...
"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack ...
Kenneth Lacovara, Ph.D., has spent years traveling the world looking for fossils and the extinction layer–a sediment layer covering the world that signifies the end of the Cretaceous period that ...
Crocodiles are persistent - not just in their deadly pursuit of prey, but in terms of their existence. The contemporary species hails from a 230-million-year lineage that has survived two mass ...