Scientists say the "unique" fossil find shows they were in fact blooming 10 million years before dinosaurs were wiped out.

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

A University of St Andrews-led study found that species declining locally are more likely to face higher global extinction ...

Imagine returning to a favorite hiking trail 15 years after your first visit and discovering that many of the plants and ...

A unique cache of plant fossils from volcanic deposits in New Mexico contradicts the common narrative that flowering plants ...

(CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of species from ...

If — when? — the African elephant goes extinct in an estimated two decades, there will be mourning and memory and tribute. People will post photos of themselves at the circus as kids. They'll mimic ...

Last year, hiking in Morocco’s eastern Atlas Mountains, I found an ammonite, a fossil of those spiral-shape cephalopods that to many symbolize paleontology itself. The fossilization process had turned ...

We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology.

Smithsonian scientist’s research illustrates how North American ecosystems are still reeling from the megafaunal extinction that closed the ice ages Jack Tamisiea During the late Pleistocene, ...

A theorem proposed in 1983 by physicist Brandon Carter is based on pure statistics and suggests how much time humanity might ...

When you think of rats, you think of relatively small rodents. These dimensions did not apply to the white-footed rabbit rat ...