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

These might seem like long time periods to us, but they are merely blips in deep (geologic ... take an earth-shattering event to start a mass extinction. In fact, some people argue that we ...

Their ancestors survived two mass extinctions, a feat that required ... Natural History Museum and professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah.

Throughout its 4.5 billion-year history, Earth has endured numerous mass extinctions, each of which has wiped out more than three-quarters of the planet's species and greatly reduced its biodiversity.

as are all other mass extinctions in the geologic record,” Evans said in a news release. Scott Evans, a postdoctoral researcher with Virginia Tech’s department of geosciences, at a 2021 dig ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything ... They may even be responsible for some of the “mini” mass extinctions which punctuate the fossil record. His work began with a different ...

Ocean life was devastated by a deadly land-sea “tag team” 100 million years ago, reveals new research. A string of catastrophic environmental events triggered "mass extinctions" of marine ...

A study on the Sixth Mass ... extinction magnitude using only surface temperature is difficult because the causes of the anthropogenic extinction differ from causes of mass extinctions in geologic ...

We looked directly for the traits most crucial for survival in the geologic past ... we risk moving toward a sixth mass extinction event. So our work provides a pivotal call to action.

It comes from the time of the worst mass extinction ... a part in the extinction of some terrestrial life,” says Feng Liu, a geologist at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology ...

He argues, in particular, that the pattern of these mini mass extinctions during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods supports his hypothesis. It all, then, fits very nicely together. Geology’s ...