The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...

I hope they never retire the Doomsday Clock because its entertainment value is priceless. If you’re unaware of the Doomsday Clock, its purpose is to represent how close the human race is to extinction ...

Few people could write so genially, even humorously, about our existential crisis. Henry Gee can, in his excellent new book ...

The first-ever published research out of Tinshemet Cave indicates the two human species regularly interacted and shared ...

A 62-million-year-old mammal fossil reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, plant-based diet, and evolutionary ties to primates ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing ...

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Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center Associate Professor of Anthropology Stephen Chester and a team of researchers have ...