Explore the dramatic history of our planet's five major extinction events and learn how these natural disasters have fundamentally shaped the evolution of life as we know it today.

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth ...

A new study reveals that a major cooling event 34 million years ago caused staggered marine extinctions, not a single global ...

A remarkable new discovery is shedding light on one of the greatest survival stories in Earth's history, and answering a ...

The Ontong Java Plateau (OJP), located in the Pacific Ocean, formed around 110 to 120 million years ago through massive submarine volcanic eruptions. This event is considered the most extensive ...

Doomsday meteors get a bad rap. For decades, these poor rocks have been tarnished in the press and demonized in major ...

World War II saw events like the Holocaust and the bombings in Japan that are today found in countless history textbooks and ...

Trump's budget plan takes aim at programs that make Americans smarter, healthier and safer. What's his real agenda?

The populations of both species have plummeted in recent years due to a loss of sea ice and reduced food availability. | ITV ...

Between 280 and 200 million years ago, a group of animals evolved which would eventually give rise to mammals, including humans: the therapsids. They were first described more than 150 years ago, ...