Earth is far from a static place. That's true in the present, but it's even more apparent when you look to the past, as Earth ...

Broadcaster and campaigner Chris Packham is on a mission to cut overconsumption, take on fossil fuel giants and create a ...

Mass extinction sounds scary, but it’s basically nature’s biggest reset button. Throughout Earth’s history, there have been five major events […] ...

The extinction of dinosaurs reshaped rivers, forests, and landscapes—changes still recorded in the rock layers across North America.

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at least in part, due to changes in Earth’s magnetic field? Did Australopithecus ...

Around 66 million years ago, Earth underwent a catastrophic event that wiped out nearly 75% of all species, including the dinosaurs. This wasn't the first mass extinction in our planet's history, but ...

A comet explosion may explain mass extinctions 13,000 years ago, linking the Clovis people's vanishing and mammoth die-off to ...

The mention of giant underwater creatures might conjure images of whales or mythical monsters. But the largest creature ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

In the iron-rich hot springs of Japan, scientists are uncovering secrets of early Earth by studying microbial life forms that ...