The colossal jets are emitted by the black hole and influence various processes within and around the galaxy. For instance, ...

Two nearby explosive massive star deaths, or supernovas, may have triggered mass extinction events in Earth's distant past, ...

But scientists debate if that’s sufficient evidence to conclude that Earth is undergoing a mass extinction event—or whether that’s even a helpful designation. After a year teaching an algorithm to ...

But occasionally, extinction rates have surged far beyond usual levels, driving mass extinction events that have reshaped the trajectory of life. After a year teaching an algorithm to differentiate ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

Some biologists conclude that humans owe our present dominance to a mass extinction -- the K/T event that saw the end of the dinosaurs and cleared the way for mammals to diversify into all the ...

Scientists estimate that a third or more of all the roughly 6,300 known species of amphibians are at risk of extinction [6]. Frogs, toads, and salamanders are disappearing because of habitat loss, ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

The research emphasized that this change is part of the planet's ever-evolving nature and history of extinction events, and that Earth will continue to live on even if it does so without humans.

Past extinction events offer clues about how the Earth has previously responded to being placed under such severe pressure. But how can we better understand this extinction? How does this ...

(Image Credit: Yang Dinghua) Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as ...