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

Earth has already faced five mass extinctions—and scientists say the sixth has begun. Species are vanishing, climates are ...

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience community and the public. Among them, the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME ...

The “Big Five” mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience community and the public. Among them, the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction ...

According to John Wiens at the University of Arizona (see "There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened") and others, avoiding a textbook extinction could still be ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

Narrow geographic distributions and different metabolisms may have contributed to these extinction patterns. Life rebounded from each of the Big Five mass extinctions throughout Earth’s history ...

Narrow geographic distributions and different metabolisms may have contributed to these extinction patterns. Biodiversity bounces back Life rebounded from each of the Big Five mass extinctions ...

New research from the University of California, Davis, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Texas A&M University reveals that ...