The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

In a lecture in Rio, the director of the Center for Health and Human Performance at the University of London spoke about the ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

A bitter struggle for control of a professional association is proving that diversity, equity and inclusion remains a ...

“And that’s how it all started.” This choice helped spark a decades-long movement to revive a language at the edge of extinction. For the Sámi, language is more than communication—it’s ...

After the end-Permian mass extinction, certain species thrived in warmer, oxygen-depleted waters, spreading globally. This ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet’s ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.