The venture, privately funded to start, is now run by the University of Arizona. And today, scientists there are quietly ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that Earth re ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth was nearly lifeless, with nearly all life forms wiped out. This event, known as the ...

The trigger for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event was the eruption of massive amounts of molten rock in modern day ...

The authors explored how applying these 3 measures of intactness reduces the number of sites that might qualify under KBA Criterion C. They found that only between 2% an 3% of Earth’s terrestrial ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

Snakes (Serpentes) live almost everywhere on Earth, except the polar regions, which are too cold for these cold-blooded ...

Maria Reva’s startling and ambitious whirlwind of a debut novel, “Endling,” involves soon-to-be-extinct animal species, the worst European terrestrial conflict since World War II and the ...