This illustration of an asteroid crashing into Earth could show what a mass extinction event was like earlier in the planet's history. The largest extinction event, the Great Dying, has been linked to ...

A new study has found that while the large-scale biodiversity extinction taking place right now doesn’t qualify as a mass extinction just yet, the earth is rapidly barrelling towards the sixth such ...

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 ...

Sixty-six million years ago, dinosaurs had the ultimate bad day. With a devastating asteroid impact, a reign that had lasted 180 million years was abruptly ended. Our dinosaur researcher Professor ...

Scientists have shed new light on how the largest mass extinction in the history of Earth wiped out 90 per cent of all life on the planet around 250 million years ago. The Permian Extinction, dubbed ...

We are researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event. Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) — The extinction of the dinosaurs may be ancient history, but that history continues to be rewritten, thanks in part to a professor at New Mexico State University. As Chad Brummett ...

Nearly 66 million years ago, a mass extinction event wiped out the dinosaurs and most life on Earth at the end of the Cretaceous period. When an impact crater and other evidence of an ancient asteroid ...

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 ...