Throughout Earth’s history, there have been several global extinction events, wiping out large portions of life across the ...

A chilling new assessment suggests our planet is hurtling towards an unprecedented loss of life, with human activity squarely ...

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

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

Study by UChicago, Smithsonian, UK Natural History Museum challenges assumptions about survival after global catastrophe ...

The Great Dying marks the transition from the Permian to the Triassic period, so it’s often referred to as the Permian-Triassic mass extinction ... the Great Dying. “Life on Earth had to ...

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

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 ...

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

(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 ...