Extinction

Researchers want their models to inspire more accurate reconstructions of extinct animals such as mammoths and saber-toothed cats

Clues to the season of impact lingered in delicate fish fossils

This new release uses a comet hurtling toward Earth to satirize the way we dismiss scientific facts and the scientists who discover them

Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse 

An assessment of chimpanzees, gorillas and bonobos reveals that our economic “footprint” is the primary driver of great apes’ fate

These are startling times, but there’s a way out

Is life’s persistence on Earth really the norm?

A new analysis of fossil beasts adds a new wrinkle to the story of when the Age of Mammals really took off

Counter to expectations, an apparent drop in dinosaur diversity at the end of the Cretaceous indicates there are many species yet to be found

Paleontologists are still puzzling over why dinosaurs succeeded while crocodile cousins faded away

A new study highlights a communication breakdown in sciences concerned with ice age extinction

A strange paper offers an odd idea for why nonavian dinosaurs died out. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny