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A mass extinction event that brought about the rise of the dinosaurs more than 200 million years ago was believed to be caused by the planet’s warming. Now, scientists at Columbia University say ...

Earth's worst mass extinction event was 'The 'Great Dying' some 252 million years ago – long before the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. It was the most severe extinction event of the past 500 ...

A previously unknown mass extinction has been discovered which occurred 233 million years ago. Researchers spotted evidence of the so-called Carnial Pluvial Episode thanks to chemical signatures ...

Earth's most famous mass extinction event was the giant asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. But although it was severe, obliterating some 76 per cent of the world's species, ...

Mega ocean warming El Niño events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study, published today in Science and co ...

Since its formation about 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth has had five mass extinction, where about 75 percent of the planet’s life is wiped out over 2.8 million years, which is merely a blink of an ...

Human beings are steadily heading towards extinction and may “already be a dead species walking”, according to a scientist.

The ozone layer was destroyed during Earth's biggest mass extinction event, say scientists. Around 250 million years ago, life on our planet was almost entirely wiped out during an event that has been ...

14:37, Thu, May 28, 2020 Updated: 15:24, Thu, May 28, 2020 Cutting-edge quantitative analysis of the mass extinction that occurred 215 million years ago reveals it was not linked to any single ...

A group of fossilised snails and bivalves are challenging suggestions that ocean acidification contributed to the largest extinction in history. An international team of researchers found limited ...

The kinds of catastrophe that loom largest in today’s collective imagination tend to be compact and spectacular: the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, with a 180-decibel boom heard more than three ...