An unusual DNA source shows woolly rhinos did not slowly decline genetically, pointing instead to rapid climate warming.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...

During these waves of mass extinction, most vertebrate survivors were confined to refugia, or isolated biodiversity hotspots ...

"Specifically, the impact of their extinction may not just be observable by the disappearance of their fossils in the rock record, but also by changes in the sediments themselves." Dr. Weaver says the ...