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

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

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

Sure, we all know about the asteroid impact that is thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs, but did you know that the Earth ...

Nicknamed “The Great Dying,” this was the deadliest of all. It wiped out most marine ... large herbivores like Moschops also disappeared. This extinction cleared the way for dinosaurs but ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

resulting in a chain of events that could cause a mass extinction. During the Devonian geological era, life thrived on land for the first time, but early land plants and animals making the ...

At least two mass ... extinction killed 60 per cent of marine invertebrates at a time when life was largely confined to the sea, while the late Devonian wiped out around 70 per cent of all species ...

But imagine no ozone layer, then you get all the UV radiation ... you end up with a whole ecosystem collapse and a mass extinction. What's the risk? We've done the math. And it says that generally ...