The study was led by Ariane Burke, an anthropologist at the University of Montreal’s Department of Anthropology. Her team ...

In the past couple of decades, several species have been driven to extinction thanks, in large part, to human interference. Sometimes that interference is direct, poaching for big game trophies or ...

As out-of-control heat cooks our planet, shattering temperature records for the last 13 consecutive months, it melts polar ice and raises sea levels. Most people are familiar with how this works, but ...

Mass extinctions, volcanism, and impacts: The geological extinction record : history, data, biases, and testing / Norman MacLeod -- Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions : an update / David P.G ...

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the dinosaurs. This phase of active volcanism took place in a period just before ...

Prehistoric humans hunt a woolly mammoth. More and more research shows that this species – and at least 46 other species of megaherbivores – were driven to extinction by humans. The debate has raged ...

A meteorite hit Earth about 66 million years ago near what today is the Yucatán peninsula, causing widespread destruction and death. But almost simultaneously, intense volcanism covered a vast area of ...

Accurate forecasting has long been an art and a science, but when the stakes are high, it is smart to make it into a tournament. William Culbert Researchers recently systematically surveyed two ...