Earth's worst mass extinctions occurred when environmental change outpaced evolution, revealing a pattern spanning 450 ...

Recently paleontologists have discovered something that many will find rather chilling. According to new research, mass extinctions of land-dwelling animals, including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, ...

Earth’s history has always been a story told through the fossilized remains of long-extinct creatures. For centuries, scientists have used these remnants to piece together the planet’s geological ...

Scientists from New York University have found that mass extinctions of land-based animals are more predictable than previously thought, and occur roughly every 27 million years in a cycle likely due ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Climate change could trigger “boom and bust” population cycles that make animal species more vulnerable to extinction, according to Christopher C. Wilmers, an assistant professor of ...