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(Click on Image to Enlarge) Cosmos : The big five mass extinctions Biologists suspect we’re living through the sixth major mass exti...

This map from the U.S. Geological Service shows the range of the volcanic ash that was deposited after the biggest of the Yellowstone Nat...

Eruption: Supervolcanoes with the power to destroy human civilisations may build up a deadly head of steam far faster than scientists believ...

New research reveals that it took some 10 million years for Earth to recover from the greatest mass extinction of all time, some 250 million...

History's Normal Rate Of Species Disappearance Is Accelerating, Scientists Say -- McClatchy News PHILADELPHIA — Biologist E.O. Wilson on...

The Northern Calcareous Alps, where scientists found evidence of a giant, killing "burp" of methane emitted hundreds of millions o...

Will 75 percent of Earth's species go the way of the dodo? CREDIT: Dreamstime Humans On Verge Of Causing 6th Great Mass Extinction -- Li...

City Tech student Thinh Lê with the apparatus he built to measure the optical transmission of meteorite samples. (Credit: Michele Forsten) A...

The Semeru volcano in Indonesia. New research suggests that climate change following massive volcanic eruptions drove Neanderthals to extinc...

Wooly Mammoth Did nanodiamonds mean death for this mammoth and all his friends? Depends on which study you believe. Wikimedia Commons Fro...

From Live Science: Mass extinctions have served as huge reset buttons that dramatically changed the diversity of species found in oceans all...

From Popular Mechanics: The Universe looks like a pretty tranquil place to live, doesn't it? During the day the sun shines steadily, and...

From The BBC: The dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago by at least two space impacts, rather than a single strike, a new study sugg...

Rapid climate change may leave polar bears high and dry (Image: Ingrid Visser/SplashdownDirect/Rex Features) From New Scientist: A 3-metre-t...

Evidence? This Jurassic ammonite discovered in Svalbard, Norway reveals the sudden drop in temperature which may have contributed to the ext...

From New Scientist: THE first sign that something had gone terribly wrong was a deep rumbling roar. Hours later the choking ash arrived, fal...

JOIDES Resolution departing from Yokohama, Japan, on the Shatsky Rise expedition. (Credit: John Beck, IODP/TAMU) From Science Daily: Science...

Changes: Dinosaurs came to rule the world as a direct result of a mass extinction similar to the one that killed them off From The Daily Mai...

The IUCN lists west African giraffes as an endangered species. Conservationists say the rate of new species is slower than diversity loss. P...

An artist's rendering of the moment of impact when an enormous space rock struck the Yucatán peninsula at the end of the Cretaceous Peri...