Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

The new Huayuan biota provides a 'unique window' into the Sinsk mass extinction event.

Fossils reveal dinosaurs were flourishing in diverse ecosystems right up until the asteroid impact ended their reign.

For decades, scientists treated the end of Earth’s habitability as a problem for the far future, measured in several billion ...

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

The term “de-extinction” often conjures images of Jurassic Park-style genetic manipulation, complete with ethical dilemmas and ecological chaos. But the reality of functional de-extinction—the ...

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 85 seconds before midnight. The change was announced by the Bulletin of the Atomic ...

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