Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

The Ordovician Period was around 485 to 444 million years ago and had a thriving ecosystem beneath the water, before fauna ...

Putting an end to a mass extinction sounds like an impossible task, but some researchers argue that doing so would be setting ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

You may have heard that the sun will swallow the Earth in 5 billion years, but the planet will be uninhabitable a few billion ...

Researchers from the University of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution and London’s Natural History Museum analysed fossil ...

Early life had been thriving in a warm greenhouse ... “In my opinion, there are certainly more than five mass extinction events throughout the fossil record,” Monarrez says.

For most of human history, the overall population is believed to have remained quite low. But since the early 1800s, the ...

wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global catastrophic events in Earth’s ...

extinction event (TJME). It was a highly significant event and is classed as one of the ‘Big Five’ mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon. This was a critical event in the evolution of life ...

(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 ...