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 ...
Five times in our planet's history, adverse conditions have extinguished most of life. Now, scientists say, life on Earth could be in trouble again, with some even saying we could be entering a sixth ...
“WHY did the dinosaurs die out?” The consensus, among palaeontologists and dinosaur crazy seven-year-olds alike, seems to be that about 66m years ago a 10km diameter asteroid crashed into what is now ...
Extinction isn't just a natural loss; it impacts humanity by erasing scientific knowledge, cultural connections, and ...
Dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ago. Now scientists have found extraordinary evidence which documents the colossal asteroid impact event. It was widely ...
Mass extinctions of land-dwelling animals, including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds, occur once every 27 million years, according to a new study. US researchers performed statistical ...
Learn more about the newly found fossils that show plant resilience during the “Great Dying.” Even during one of Earth’s largest mass extinction events, where heat waves kill of a majority of Earth’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
The planet’s largest ever extinction event may have been caused by UV radiation rendering Earth’s plant life infertile. Around 250 million years ago, the End-Permian Extinction – known as “The Great ...
It’s not often a new mass extinction is identified; after all, such events were so devastating they really stand out in the fossil record. In a new paper, published today in Science Advances, an ...
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