Current extinction rates are 50 times higher than expected background rates, suggesting that another mass extinction event is underway. But mass extinctions are also about magnitude: if we could ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mass extinction events represent intervals of abrupt, large‐scale loss of biodiversity that have repeatedly reshaped life on Earth. These crises are commonly linked to dramatic environmental ...

Five times, a vast majority of the world's life has been snuffed out in what have been called mass extinctions. End-Ordovician mass extinction The first of the traditional big five extinction events, ...

The extinction event was even bigger than the one that destroyed the dinosaurs, with plants and animals taking millions of years to recover SCIENTISTS have figured out the cause of the biggest ...

What is a mass extinction? Extinction is a part of life, and animals and plants disappear all the time. About 98% of all the organisms that have ever existed on our planet are now extinct. When a ...

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Volcanic activity caused by the impact of an enormous meteor may have contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. There has been much debate in scientific circles about the role ...

Brachiopods like these dominated the seas prior to the Capitanian extinction Over the past 450 million years, life on Earth has been devastated by five mass extinction events that are widely ...

An extinction or biotic crisis is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp change in the abundance of multicellular organisms. Most ...

There have been five mass extinction events in the history of Earth’s biodiversity. (Credit: Unsplash) Scientists believe that we might be living through the sixth mass extinction event in our ...