Sharks might be the all time bullet-dodging champions. They’ve been around for about 450 million years, longer than trees, longer than the rings of Saturn, and longer than most of the other life on ...

It is estimated that throughout the Earth's 4.5 billion-year existence, over 99% of the species inhabiting it have gone extinct. Many of these species died due to mass extinction events. Life on Earth ...

Supernova destroying planet, illustration. A rocky planet lies in the wake of its star, which has just gone supernova. The explosion shatters the planet. A complete census of massive stars in our part ...