Mass extinction

Feather coats may have helped the dinosaurs survive an apocalypse

How to survive when the springtime of your species is over.

By Cassidy Ward | 

1 month ago

Is this fossilized dinosaur leg a record of the day the asteroid struck?

It was the worst, and last, day of their lives.

By Cassidy Ward | 

3 months ago

The last spring of the dinosaurs

Scientists narrow down what time of year the dinosaurs died.

By Phil Plait | 

7 months ago

Forget the dinosaurs; what caused the first mass extinction ever?

Now we know what caused the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction, and it doesn't bode well for us now.

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

9 months ago

How teeth saved humanity's primate ancestors from a secret sixth mass extinction

Take care of your teeth, we might owe them our existence.

By Cassidy Ward | 

9 months ago

Primates' behavioral flexibility helped them survive dino-killing asteroid

Primates had a sort of open relationship with trees

By Cassidy Ward | 

9 months ago

Bizarre sea creatures from 500 million years ago are resurfacing as fossils

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

1 year ago

So now we know why the worst mass extinction ever annihilated almost everything on Earth

By Elizabeth Rayne | 

1 year ago

Second mega space rock landed in the Ukraine 650,000 years after dino-killing strike

By Jeff Spry | 

1 year ago

Scientists determine explosive new mass extinction event 232 million years ago

By Jeff Spry | 

1 year ago