This is the Titanoboa. One the of the largest and deadliest snakes to ever exist. It went extinct 55 million years ago. But what if that never happened?

Imagine a snake so massive it would have to squeeze through your office door to get at you. That was Titanoboa, the largest ...

From sloths that towered over people like living bulldozers and penguins heavier than an ostrich, to snakes longer than a bus, prehistoric landscapes were shaped by creatures so massive they almost ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data. Researchers found that species losses peaked about a century ago and have ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

What happened on Earth after the dinosaurs died? Humans could learn a thing or two from the tiny creatures that survived and evolved after an asteroid wiped out most of the life on Earth more than 66 ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology.

A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species. It is usually not a short, one-time incident but rather something that occurs over thousands or millions ...

Credit: Youtube Vasuki indicus may have stretched up to 49 feet (15 meters) in length, which is several feet longer than a typical school bus. For comparison, the green anaconda, one of today’s ...