A comprehensive new review paper reveals the staggering loss of biodiversity among island land snails globally. Lead author ...

Land snail extinctions are accelerating across islands, exposing a devastating collapse of some of the world’s most fragile ...

Across the tropical Pacific, some of the planet’s most distinctive land snails are slipping out of existence, turning once noisy, living forests into quieter, emptier places. Nowhere is that loss more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sharks might be the all time bullet-dodging champions. They’ve been around for about 450 million years, longer than trees, longer ...

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the ...

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 ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

WASHINGTON — A key element of the second major report on climate change being released Friday in Belgium is a chart that maps out the effects of global warming, most of them bad, with every degree of ...

pt. 1. Articles of a general nature. Phanerozoic marine biodiversity : a fresh look at data, methods, patterns and processes / Martin Aberhan and Wolfgang Kiessling ; Coordinated stasis reconsidered : ...