A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Earth was reeling from cataclysmic volcanic activity in modern-day Siberia, which ushered in intense global warming, oxygen ...

Could the Woolly Mammoth and Tasmanian Tiger roam the Earth again? We take a look at how scientists are using genetic ...

Whether current biodiversity loss—a crisis by any measure—meets the criteria for another mass extinction is hotly debated. Much of the debate hinges on accurately measuring the scale of modern-day and ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

By John Cannon Millions of years ago, as the Indo-Australian plate pushed into the Pacific plate, a volcanic arc of islands ...

One prevailing theory suggests that massive volcanic eruptions in present-day Siberia triggered widespread devastation on land through wildfires, acid rain, and toxic gases. The extinction of ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind ... Although often obscured by the noise and rush of modern life, people retain deep emotional connections to the wild ...

The animals, the first to have been created by Colossal Biosciences, have fluffy coats and curly whiskers.

According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly, the impact must have spelled the cataclysmic end. For months, scientists conclude, dense clouds of dust blocked the sun ...

She has conducted paleontological field research in over a dozen countries in Afro-Arabia, discovering several species new to science. She explores modern day extinction dynamics in biodiversity ...