The Devonian Mass Extinction wiped out 70 percent of life from our planet some 360 million years ago, but what caused the deadly event has remained a mystery- until now. The animals, mostly marine ...

We think of mass extinctions as brief moments of havoc — profoundly devastating but over within a geologic instant. The Devonian, the second of the so-called "Big Five,” defies this notion. If the ...

Professor John Marshall collecting samples on the End Devonian mass extinction in East Greenland. Credit: Chris Berry A ...

Will modern coral reefs go extinct? The answer is uncertain, but some of their ancient counterparts managed to dodge a bullet — for a while, at least. Scientists from Osaka Metropolitan University ...

Mass extinctions are very important to how life evolved on Earth. For example, when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, the resulting dinosaur extinction led mammals to take their place.

Since the beginning of time, Earth has created life and then wiped out most of it in catastrophic, ultra-destructive moments.

The Devonian-Carboniferous transition was a time of substantial climatic, environmental and biotic change, with the Late Devonian being recognised as one of the ‘Big 5’ mass extinction intervals of ...

Devonian extinction Analysis of a 380-million-year-old crab-like fossil from Western Australia has painted a gruesome picture of the events leading to one of Earth's major mass extinctions. Climate ...

ANCIENT volcano eruptions wiped out almost all life on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, a shocking study of Palaeozoic rocks has found. Dinosaur experts from the University of Śląsk, Poland, ...

There have been five unquestionably great extinctions on earth: the end-Ordovician, the late-Devonian, the end-Permian, end-Triassic, and the end-Cretaceous extinctions. Some think we are now in a ...