Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of ...

On land, large herbivores like Moschops also disappeared. This extinction cleared the way for dinosaurs but wiped out most large amphibians and early archosaurs—creatures that would’ve ...

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

The world around us is constantly changing, and with these changes come questions that challenge our understanding of life on Earth. One such question is ... Read more The post Are We Entering the ...

This realization led Wright and his coauthors to connect the cosmic phenomenon with mass extinctions on Earth. Cataclysmic events have taken place five times in the past 500 million years ...

This realization led Wright and his co-authors to connect the cosmic phenomenon with mass extinctions on Earth. Cataclysmic events have taken place five times in the past 500 million years ...