Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass ...

The curious minds at What If dive into 180 million years of dinosaur evolution, tracing rise, dominance, and extinction.

Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact, Homo sapiens might still face extinction, because the social networks ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our planet's history.

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, and shallow seas shrank fast.

Paleontologists have identified thousands of animal species that lived soon after the Cambrian explosion ended ...

Contributed by Kea Giles, Managing Editor, GeologyBoulder, Colo., USA: Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's ...

Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

Tim Coulson, a professor at Oxford University, has dedicated years to researching how life evolves. He thinks that if we vanished, it would create space for ...

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

The Washington Post is, in many respects, the least complicated of owner Jeff Bezos’ many business interests. So where is his ...