In fact, the last great extinction event in the history of life on Earth could be our fault. Human activities such as habitat destruction, pollution, climate change, and overexploitation of species ...

Learn more about how the surprising survival of marine ecosystems after the last mass extinction can help us better prepare for the next one. Earth has experienced five documented mass extinctions to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history. An analysis of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even bivalves looked different during the time of the dinosaurs, as these fossils of an ultra-fortified oyster, left, and armored ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This article is more than 2 years old. In the past 500 ...

The resulting extinction decimated animal groups, like archaeocyathids (reef-building marine sponges) and hyoliths (animals with small conical shells). "It's unusual to point to a tectonic cause for ...

couple of Brachiosaurus altithorax and a flock of Pterosaurs in a scenic Late Jurassic landscape© dottedhippo/iStock via Getty Images The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological ...

Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass extinctions have occurred, with five major mass extinctions being particularly ...

Elon Musk warns sustainable energy alone may not be enough to protect Earth from future extinction events, suggesting space ...