Scientists agree that the Earth is currently undergoing the sixth mass extinction in its 4.6-billion-year history. A new study says that there may be a time lag between when humans implement ...

This illustration of an asteroid crashing into Earth could show what a mass extinction event was like earlier in the planet's history. The largest extinction event, the Great Dying, has been ...

A study on the Sixth Mass Extinction titled "Relationship between extinction magnitude and climate change during major marine and terrestrial animal crises" has been published in the journal ...

A definitive geological timeline shows that a series of massive ... the second and largest of which coincides with the K-Pg mass extinction. Numerous other papers from his research groups are ...

Now, thanks to a new analysis of core samples taken from the crater’s inner ring of mountains, called a peak ring, geologists can create a detailed timeline ... or K-Pg, mass extinction.