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

A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown ...

Scientists found that people respond more strongly to warnings about plant and animal extinction than to scientific terms ...

Mombasa, Kenya, 15 October 2026 – A global reassessment of reef-building corals has found that 44% of species are threatened ...

A comprehensive IUCN Red List reassessment of 892 reef-building coral species finds that 44 percent face elevated relative ...

The loss of the prey species is a 'primary extinction' because it succumbed directly to a disturbance. But with nothing to eat, its predator will also go extinct (a 'co-extinction'). Or, imagine a ...

(CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of species from ...

Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said ...

Many experts believe we may soon face a mass extinction event, with a high proportion of Earth’s species dying out. Projections indicate the climate will continue to change for centuries to come, and ...