Scientists found Arctic fossils showing ocean life recovered just 3 million years after extinction, revealing how fast ecosystems rebuild.

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some ...

Around 250 million years ago, one of Earth’s largest known volcanic events set off The Great Dying: the planet’s worst mass ...

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It has been one year since Oxford University boffins say the species likely to take over the world after humans is the octopus. The eight-limbed creatures are primed to become the dominant force on ...

Scientists warn that the planet is entering its sixth mass extinction, a crisis driven by deforestation, pollution, and the rapid disappearance of species at rates unseen since the age of dinosaurs.

Scientists at a Texas-based company made a major breakthrough towards reviving the dodo bird nearly 300 years after extinction. Colossal Biosciences announced on Wednesday that researchers had, for ...

The horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is often described as a "living fossil," a species that has endured for over 450 million years. It outlasted the mass extinctions and dramatic shifts in Earth's ...

What happened on Earth after the dinosaurs died? Humans could learn a thing or two from the tiny creatures that survived and evolved after an asteroid wiped out most of the life on Earth more than 66 ...