Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Waves of extinction have ripped through life on Earth over and over again during its long history. The non-avian dinosaurs were the last to feel the burn, 66 million years ago, but there have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have speculated for years that the world is coming up on its sixth mass extinction, when a majority of the Earth’s ...

A new study by Virginia Tech geobiologists traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals to decreased global oxygen availability, leading to the loss of a majority of animals present ...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of researchers led by Virginia Tech examine how Earth’s first known mass extinction of animals was ...