mass extinction

The latest subject revealing our Earth's past: bonsai-like pine trees.

U.S. scientists find fossil fragments from 13 trees locked away on the Transantarctic Mountains.

You have never had luck this terrible.

Brrrr, it's cold in here, there must be 350 billion tons of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere.

Many scientists argue we are in the midst of a mass extinction caused by habitat destruction and climate change.

A newly discovered global extinction event resulted in 36 percent of marine megafauna going extinct.

The ancient hatchling will shed light on the evolution of the toothed birds that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

Newly discovered crater in the Falklands may correspond with the Great Dying event 250 million years ago.

Melting glaciers turning land to bog was behind widespread extinctions of animals like the giant sloth and woolly mammoth between 15,000 and 11,000 years ago.