Earth has a flair for dramatic resets, though it usually takes millions of years to deliver them. Over its long history, life has been knocked back by volcanic eruptions, climate swings, changing seas ...

New AI-powered research questions whether a majority of Earth’s mass extinctions were as abrupt as previously believed.

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 ...

Life on Earth took a long evolutionary journey that eventually created us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates the planet. But there was no grand plan or design, only happenstance, ...

An international collaboration involving researchers from the University of Western Australia, the University of Ottawa and several partner institutions specializing in geosciences has identified ...

An artificial-intelligence model trained on nearly four million fossils suggests that three of the extinction events might ...

Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions. Mass extinctions are often imagined as sudden, planet-wide catastrophes caused ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A University of New Mexico scientist is making connections between climate change and mass extinctions across millions of years of history. Paleobiologist Cori Myers was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Anton Petrus/Moment/Getty Images) Life on Earth, beginning with simple microorganisms that evolved and diversified into the ...