Fossilized seashells show signs of global warming, ocean acidification leading up to asteroid impact. Shells’ chemistry shifted to respond to influx of carbon into the…
New University of Arizona research investigates what proportion of the world’s land plants are exceedingly rare, where they’re found and how location might put them…
An international collaboration of scientists in Iceland, Denmark, and the Netherlands has for the first time used ancient DNA analyses and C14-dating to demonstrate the…
First-ever photos and footage of silver-backed chevrotain confirm first rediscovery of lost mammal on Global Wildlife Conservation’s ‘most wanted’ list. Global Wildlife Conservation and partners…
A new sphenisciform fossil from the north island of New Zealand further resolves the bauplan of extinct giant penguins. Penguins are descendants of seabirds that…
Extinct species rediscovered in Winterhoek mountains, South Africa, after 200 years. Last seen in 1804, psoralea cataracta was rediscovered by Brian du Preez, a Ph.D….
A team of Russian researchers from Tyumen State University together with foreign colleagues studied the cases of plant extinction in world biodiversity hotspots and coldspots….
A team of scientists has concluded that earth experienced a previously underestimated severe mass-extinction event, which occurred about 260 million years ago, raising the total…
A research team has found new evidence that fish rapidly evolved in two phases following the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) mass extinction that occurred 66 million years…
It took less than 30,000 years and maybe only thousands, to kill more than 90% of sea creatures and most land species, according to the…
Sixty-five million years ago, clouds of ash choked the skies over Earth. Dinosaurs, along with about half of all the species on Earth, staggered and…
According to a newly published study from MIT, Earth’s oceans may hold enough carbon to launch mass extinction of species in future millennia. In the…
New research from MIT reveals that about 251.9 million years ago, in a region that today is known as the Siberian Traps, a huge pulse…
New research from Yale University urges scientists to move their focus from species extinction to species rarity in order to recognize, and avoid, a mass…
A new study from MIT reveals that the Siberian Traps erupted at the right time, and for the right duration, to have been a likely…
A new and more precise recalculation of the normal background extinction rate reveals that the rate of extinction in the human era is as much…
In the last 40,000 years, there have been at least ten gigantic landslides of more than 100 cubic kilometers in the North Atlantic ocean alone….
Researchers have discovered an 8.6-meter long reptile with a massive skull and sharp teeth that lived 244 million years ago, during the Triassic Period. It’s…