Daily Mail

Dinosaurs may NOT have been wiped out by world-ending meteor: New model says mega volcano eruption may have caused their extinction

A new model has revealed that a mega volcano eruption drove the dinosaurs to extinction — not the infamous Chicxulub meteor that smashed into the Yucatán Peninsula over 66 million years ago.
Daily Mail

Have we missed a mass extinction? Extra catastrophic event may have occurred 8 million years before the ‘Great Dying’, claim experts

According to the history books, five mass extinctions have devastated the planet since it formed 4.6 billion years ago. But history may have to be rewritten after the discovery of fossils that point ...
The Yorkshire Post

New theory on mass extinction events by Leeds-based scientist says dinosaurs ‘fluked’ becoming dominant species

A new theory on mass extinction events by a Leeds-based scientist suggests dinosaurs ‘fluked’ becoming the dominant species. Neil Hudson reports. There have been five mass extinction events in the ...
BBC

New mass extinction event identified by geologists

Over the past 450 million years, life on Earth has been devastated by five mass extinction events that are widely recognised by geologists. Now, an international team of researchers proposes adding a ...