New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

The cataclysm that ended the Age of Dinosaurs not only drove land animals to migrate into the water, but also pushed aquatic creatures to colonize the land, a new study reveals. The shifts between ...

Dinosaurs had some bad luck, but sooner or later extinction comes for all of us. rawpixel/Unsplash.com, CC BY Though they say “‘tis impossible to be sure of anything but death and taxes,” a bit of ...

There has been previous work on categorizing and classifying extinction events. There is Bostroms paper and there is also the work by Jamais Cascio and Michael Anissimov on classification and ...