The new study deciphered the single-most greatest mass extinction on Earth driven by a natural calamity that still exists.

He has determined the two events occurred within 100,000 ... where we've done so much to destroy an ecosystem. If life can survive the Permian extinction, it can survive anything.

The five peaks show the "Big Five" mass extinction events, when extinction rates sharply ... tropical forms of life have been drastically affected, while land plants tend to be highly resistant ...

Extinction is a natural part of life on Earth. But occasionally, extinction rates have surged far beyond usual levels, driving mass extinction events that have reshaped the trajectory of life. After a ...

Extinction is part of life's history and extinction of single ... Five big mass extinction events are recognized by paleontologists. At the end of the Ordovician some 443 million years ago ...

and porpoises — are among those mammals slipping most quickly toward extinction. Through photosynthesis, plants provide the oxygen we breathe and the food we eat and are thus the foundation of most ...

Ironically, extinction is a springboard to other life. Even in the most catastrophic events, death is not complete. Surviving species continue to evolve, often filling niches left by the victims.

PBS Nova explained how a small terrestrial bird was able to survive the devastating asteroid that caused a mass extinction ...

And as life recovered over the next million years ... The Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction event may have wiped out some 85 percent of species, including many of the invertebrates this period is ...

Life on Earth is anything but predictable ... Here are four animals that managed to persist through Earth’s mass extinction events. Additionally, horseshoe crabs have a reproductive strategy ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...