Mass extinction

A new study led by Dartmouth College may finally settle a long-standing debate over what caused five major mass extinctions

An ecological catastrophe 201 million years ago supposedly paved the way for the rise of giant dinosaurs, but it may not have happened that way after all

Ordovician–Silurian mass extinction, illustration. The Ordovician–Silurian extinction event, also known as the Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME) around 443 million years ago, 85% of all species on Earth went extinct.

It was a little over 20 years ago when I saw a slender-billed curlew. I was in Morocco; the bird, lanky and reasonably slim in the beak department, was feeding on a patch of wetland decorated with wil

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In the last 500 million years, life has had to recover from five catastrophic blows. Are humans dealing the planet a sixth?

Ordovician–Silurian mass extinction, illustration. The Ordovician–Silurian extinction event, also known as the Late Ordovician mass extinction (LOME) around 443 million years ago, 85% of all species on Earth went extinct.

For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth.

Radical, wholesale change is needed right this second and cannot be delayed