Lava flows down a hill under an evening sky. The Permian-Triassic mass extinction was caused by volcanic eruptions in what is now the Siberian Traps, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon ...

Three new wide-release movies hit theaters this weekend. Although January movies are oft-derided, these could be keepers.

For years, several scientific reports have suggested that Earth may be entering another mass extinction event. These predictions often rely on extending extinction patterns from the past 500 years ...

“Cape lions” once roamed the Cape Flats grassland plains of South Africa, in what is now known as Western Cape Providence. After Europeans arrived in South Africa in the mid-1600s, Cape lions were ...

Extinction rates appear to have slowed since their peak in the early 1900s, suggesting not a reprieve for nature but a shift in how and where losses occur. Much of the damage was concentrated on ...

Policymakers are increasingly interested in reforming how commercial insurers use prior authorization (i.e., requirements that clinicians seek approval from insurers before providing treatment). Some ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology.

A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species. It is usually not a short, one-time incident but rather something that occurs over thousands or millions ...

Create an easy way for script users to install a different version of the base software, the script default currently is latest. The fancy version would be to modify the Update script to include a ...