In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

This is also the only known period in Earth’s history where land plants faced a mass extinction-level event, leading to a dramatic “coal gap”—a time when no peat, and therefore no coal, formed due to ...

Earth feels permanent — but it isn’t. From climate collapse to asteroid impacts, extinction-level events are inevitable on a long enough timeline. Scientists believe the only way to truly protect ...

Earth has a long and dramatic history, and one recurring theme is extinction. Did you know that over the last 500 million years, our planet experienced five major mass extinction events? These events ...

A new study reveals that a major cooling event 34 million years ago caused staggered marine extinctions, not a single global ...

A collision with this rock would release the same kind of energy that a certain other asteroid did 66 million years ago, ending the reign of the dinosaurs and killing nearly everything on Earth. This ...