2:18 p.m. May 31, 2023: An earlier version of this story misidentified the plant that was neither growing nor deteriorating. It was Sequoia sempervirens, or coast redwood, not metasequoia, or dawn ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

“For the first time, we can point to a specific kill mechanism responsible for a series of significant biotic disruptions during the late Devonian Period,” said Dr. Alan Jay Kaufman, who is a Geology ...

Anthropogenic extinction, which is driven by human activities, poses a severe threat to biodiversity worldwide. Professor Bridget B. Baker of the University of Florida's Wildlife Ecology and ...

Researchers have been able to link an oxygen event 250 million years ago to Earth's largest extinction event. The largest extinction in Earth's history, where 96% of the planet's marine life and 70% ...

About 30 climate activists lined up in the Dinosaur Wing of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in Manhattan today, September 2, to protest the museum's acceptance of donations from banks ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. According to a news release by the New York University, a team of ...

Some 250 million years ago, almost 90 percent of life on Earth disappeared in the most vicious mass extinction the world has ever known—the Permian–Triassic extinction or the "Great Dying." Around the ...

Thomas Moynihan received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2014-2017). It is 1950 and a group of scientists are walking to lunch against the majestic backdrop of the Rocky ...

Human activity could drive extinction and destroy billions of years of evolutionary history, which has produced remarkable creatures such as the punk-haired Mary River turtle, the yellow eyed Aye Aye ...