De-extinction entrepreneur Ben Lamm speaks exclusively with Metro.co.uk's Jen Mills.

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

Meet Romulus and Remus, who Colossal Biosciences claim to be the world's first de-extinct animals.

In fact, trees didn’t even exist during the Silurian period ... What caused its extinction remains unclear. It might have been outcompeted by other land organisms as ecosystems evolved.

From the Ordovician-Silurian extinction (which eliminated 85% of marine species) to the Cretaceous-Paleogene event that ended the dinosaurs, paleontologists analyze how these extinctions occurred. By ...

This period coincided with a major glaciation event that triggered one of Earth’s “big five” mass extinctions – the Ordovician-Silurian extinction event. The devastating glaciation event ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

To find answers, a team of researchers studied North America’s fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. The new analysis ...

After 25 years of research, a 444-million-year-old inside-out fossil has finally been named. The fossil, which researchers at the University of Leicester have identified as a new species of ...