Scientists have long treated mass extinctions as events locked deep in the fossil record. That framing now feels less distant ...

Warnings that humanity is heading toward its own disappearance have shifted from the fringes of science fiction into mainstream research and public debate. Instead of vague prophecies, scientists now ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a professor at New Mexico State University. As Chad Brummett ...

Fossils from Denmark suggest ammonites survived the asteroid extinction far longer than believed, raising new questions about ...