Earth’s magnetic north pole has been quietly on the move for decades, traveling thousands of miles from its original position in Canada tow...

In a remarkable geological find in Italy, a delicate clay layer was uncovered, marked by unusually high levels of iridium—a rare element on...

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid strike and volcanic eruptions triggered a global climate catastrophe. Earth plunged into a deep fr...

There have been five mass extinctions on Earth in the past. The sixth extinction refers to the accelerated, widespread extinctions (plural ...

Massive volcanic eruptions over the past 260 million years caused climate changes and mass extinction events, according to a study publishe...

Scientists now estimate that society must urgently come to grips this coming decade to stop the very first human-made biodiversity catastro...

Tokyo, Nov 11 (IANS) Dinosaurs might not have gone extinct had the the asteroid that hit Earth some 66 million years ago and triggered the ...

Researchers from MIT in the US analysed significant changes in the carbon cycle over the last 540 million years, including the five mass ex...

Washington, July 11 (IANS) Many scientists say it is "abundantly" clear that Earth is entering its sixth mass-extinction event, meaning thr...

Geologists have found footprints of Eubrontes Gleneronsensis Theropod dinosaurs in Jaisalmer district. These fossilized prints are 150 mill...

The yet undiscovered "Planet X" triggers comet showers linked to mass extinctions at intervals of approximately 27 million years, researche...

Well, a new hypothesis suggests that this potential extra planet could be responsible for mass extinctions on Earth.

Heavy metal pollution might have contributed to some of the world's largest extinction events, according to a study of 415-million-year old...

In computer simulations, they connected neural networks to simulated robotic legs with the goal of evolving a robot that could walk smoothl...

The new study, published today in Science Advances, explains that we are suffering extremely elevated levels of species losses.

If however some animal communities, particularly large animals, were unable to shelter from the heat, they may have suffered serious losses.

Since 1500, more than 320 terrestrial vertebrates have become extinct. Populations of the remaining species show a 25 per cent average decl...