An ancient aquatic species that's been around for 450 million years is facing extinction as a series of factors work against ...

Broadcaster and campaigner Chris Packham is on a mission to cut overconsumption, take on fossil fuel giants and create a ...

Earth is far from a static place. That's true in the present, but it's even more apparent when you look to the past, as Earth ...

Mass extinction sounds scary, but it’s basically nature’s biggest reset button. Throughout Earth’s history, there have been ...

Some cosmic events could have profoundly altered the lives of our ancient human relatives. Did Neanderthals go extinct, at least in part, due to changes in Earth’s magnetic field? Did Australopithecus ...

Two of the faces on the Colorado Avalanche Mount Rushmore, Joe Sakic and Nathan MacKinnon, have pulled off an identical feat ...

The mention of giant underwater creatures might conjure images of whales or mythical monsters. But the largest creature ...

(CNN) — Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” ...

Joshua Oppenheimer’s films show the political value of empathy in our polarized age. The film director Joshua Oppenheimer has ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...

Around 66 million years ago, Earth underwent a catastrophic event that wiped out nearly 75% of all species, including the dinosaurs. This wasn't the first mass extinction in our planet's history, but ...