Across the tropical Pacific, some of the planet’s most distinctive land snails are slipping out of existence, turning once ...
At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...
Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, and shallow seas shrank fast.
Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...
Speciation and extinction are the twin engines that have sculpted the diversity of life on Earth. Speciation, the process by which new species arise from ancestral populations, is driven by a mixture ...
The contents of an ancient wolf pup's stomach yields surprising clues into the genetic lineage of extinct species.
The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...