The conservation value of de-extinction lies not in populating landscapes with proxy extinct animals, but in developing ...

Previous studies have posited that the mass extinction that wiped the dinosaurs off the face of the Earth was caused by the release of large volumes of sulfur from rocks within the Chicxulub impact ...

A University researcher found evidence that a new species evolved faster than previously thought after a mass extinction ...

A new study indicates that dinosaurs may not have been declining before the asteroid strike that killed them off 66 million years ago. According to the study, instead of showing evidence of decline, ...

What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? The first thing that might come to mind is a meteorite crashing into the Earth. Assistant Professor Honami Sato, a geology researcher at the Faculty of ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including the shape of rivers—and these changes are reflected in the geologic record, ...

The end of the Cretaceous period saw disastrous geological and astronomical events, but researchers say that one in particular is to blame for the mass extinction. Reading time 3 minutes For years, ...

IMPACTS: Climates Change the World The IUCN lists 48,646 species facing extinction, a figure that has more than quadrupled in 25 years, accelerated by climate change.

DALLAS - A meteorite hit Earth 380 million years ago with such force that it may have been responsible for the great extinction that occurred around that time, researchers have found. In Friday's ...

Meet Dr. Ellen Strong, a zoologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Learn about the risks faced by snail populations in rapidly-changing freshwater ecosystems. Consider the ...