As reported by CNN, new data confirms 2024 as the hottest year ever, marking the first calendar year to break a significant ...

A mass extinction is when big percentage of all species die off. The best-known mass extinction is probably the one that ...

It caused changes that wiped out about 75% of all living things. But the first major mass extinction was way before that—about 443 million years ago. It’s called the Late Ordovician mass extinction.

The sunflower sea star—which can span more than three feet across—is a ravenous, roving apex predator able to devour armored animals like urchins, snails, clams, and crabs. But a mysterious ...

The team estimated that over the next 60 years, North American monarchs east of the Rocky Mountains have a 56 to 74 percent probability of hitting the point where extinction appears inevitable.

Arctic foxes were almost hunted to extinction in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Can projects to breed and feed them help this native species return for good? As summer gives way to an early autumn on ...

Rising temperatures have not only eroded animal populations, such as by stoking wildlife-killing wildfires in Australia and the Amazon, but they have also driven entire species to extinction.

allowing levels of ultraviolet radiation lethal to life to reach Earth and this may have triggered the Ordovician mass extinction. We can only work on what we know about and we do know that carbon ...

An analysis of research on most known species around the world finds climate change puts many species at risk of extinction, and the risk increases with more global warming. When you purchase ...