What if we told you that your entire understanding of time is about to be shattered? Human beings are notoriously bad at comprehending vast scales—whether ...

The Earth is actually coming out of an ice age, so it's relatively cold in the grand scheme of Earth's history. But the issue is the rate at which we are warming, which is cause for concern.

More than 500 million years before humans walked the Earth, a catastrophic extinction event wiped out vast numbers of early animal species. Now, fossils pulled from a single quarry in southern China ...

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Texas chapter and does not reflect the views of Her Campus. “This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper.” — T ...

Picture this. You wake up tomorrow, and nearly half the birds that used to visit your backyard are gone. The forests feel emptier. The oceans, quieter. It sounds like science fiction, right? Here’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock Government officials have warned in a new report that biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse are posing a ...

When considering mass extinctions, people often think of the asteroid strike that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. But life on Earth has experienced many extinction events. Now, a trove of fossils ...

The rattlesnakes are hibernating now, spending the winter beneath the surface of a rock outcrop in Colorado where a camera has been posted. The camera has recorded a livestream online ー revealing the ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

Around 540 million years ago, Earth's biosphere underwent a pivotal transformation, shifting from a microbe-dominated world to one teeming with animal life, as nearly all major animal phyla appeared ...