Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global ...

Some scientists don’t consider this event a mass extinction event based on analyses suggesting the biodiversity trend was driven more by a decrease in speciation rates than by an increase in ...

Some scientists don’t consider this event a mass extinction event based on analyses suggesting the biodiversity trend was driven more by a decrease in speciation rates than by an increase in ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

"Welcome to the Black Triangle," said paleobiologist Cindy Looy as our van slowed to a stop in the gentle hills of the northern Czech Republic, a few miles from the German and Polish borders.

But after a lifetime trying to make sense of the vast ecosystems that lie beneath the ocean's surface, the 73-year-old is now becoming a prophet of their extinction ... Great Barrier Reef on Death ...

Life on Earth is anything but predictable. For evidence, look no further than the five mass extinctions that have occurred over the past 500 million years: Even in the midst of widespread ...

Something—a bout of violent volcanic eruptions, climate change, or perhaps a fatal run-in with a comet or asteroid—had triggered the extinction ... the so-called Great Dying repopulated ...

Biodiversity is declining across the planet, but what about in Wisconsin, how do we measure it, and how can we stop it?