Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history, according to new research. The explosive supernova deaths of ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

Nearly all the trees died. Looy had told me that the Black Triangle was the best place today to see what the world would have looked like after the Permian extinction. This didn't look like ...

According to scientists who maintain that dinosaur extinction came quickly ... wide asteroid or comet traveling 30 kilometers per second -- 150 times faster than a jet airliner.

Dr. Bergland is a professor at Simmons University. Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood ...

Increasingly, researchers are doing the numbers, and saying, yes, if present trends continue, a mass extinction is very likely underway. The evidence is pieced together from details drawn from all ...

Extinction occurs when there are no remaining individuals of a species alive. Animals that have not adapted well to their environment are less likely to survive and reproduce than those that are ...