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

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

Mass Extinction Killed 85 Percent of Life on Earth 400 Million Years Ago, When Temperatures Dropped Extremely Our world was ...

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

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

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

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An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

Before the Late Devonian mass extinction, life on land was still ... according to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)—the global body ...

Want more health and science stories in your inbox ... and mitigate the impact of the ongoing mass extinction, in an economically and politically feasible fashion. "We just need the political ...

Through all mass extinctions, some groups manage to persist ... re willing to help preserve their habitats.” Laura is Popular Science’s news editor, overseeing coverage of a wide variety ...

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