Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact ...
Learn how social connections may influence extinction risk in some wildlife species.
At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...
The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event, marking the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods approximately 66 million years ago, stands as one of the most profound ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, and shallow seas shrank fast.
Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass ...
Speciation and extinction are the twin engines that have sculpted the diversity of life on Earth. Speciation, the process by which new species arise from ancestral populations, is driven by a mixture ...
Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...