The sixth mass extinction isn’t a distant threat—it’s happening now. Species are vanishing at an alarming rate due to habitat ...

Of all the species that have ever existed on Earth, 99% of them are gone. Most of those were wiped out during what are known as "Mass Extinction Events". Since life emerged on our planet, there have ...

This resulted in the second largest mass extinction of all time, wiping out at least half of all marine animal species about 443 million years ago.

The current mass extinction differs from all others in being driven by a single species rather ... The first wave of extinctions targeted large vertebrates hunted by hunter-gatherers. The second, ...