A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...
East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...
Scientists Warn Earth Is Entering a Sixth Mass Extinction ...
About 66 million years ago – perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May – an asteroid smashed into our planet. Even groups that weathered the catastrophe, such as mammals, fishes and flowering plants, ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
Trade-induced farmland expansion is a major factor that drives threats to wildlife species. As countries increasingly import agricultural goods from abroad, they outsource much of the environmental ...
The late Cretaceous nonavian dinosaur record -- In the shadow of nonavian dinosaurs -- In search of our most ancient eutherian ancestors -- Patterns of extinction at the K/T boundary -- Causes of ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Stewart Edie, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) About 66 million years ago – ...