Hollywood has a long history of declaring itself on the brink of extinction. Television was supposed to kill movies. VHS was ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

The impact of the asteroid 66 million years ago did not stop life from returning to normal for very long. New research shows ...

While the average person may believe we’re losing species faster than we can discover new ones, that may not be the case. A recent analysis hosted at the University of Arizona has researchers arguing ...

Nowadays, we're pretty confident about how the dinosaurs died out, but there are still other extinctions throughout Earth's history, some big, some small, that remain unsolved. Hosted by: Rose Bear ...

Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...

In a new study in Geology, researchers calculated how long it took for novel single-celled marine species to appear after the asteroid impact, and it’s surprisingly fast.

The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History has opened an exhibit on the passenger pigeon to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the species' ...

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

A direct follow-up to Colin Trevorrow 's Jurassic World, which made $1.6 billion globally in 2015, Fallen Kingdom concluded ...

Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign.

In London, the Natural History Museum released its 2025 list of newly described species, formally adding 262 plants and ...