Earth's history is marked by devastating mass extinctions, each one reshaping life as we know it. Now, experts warn that ...

In 2021, researchers predicted that a geomagnetic reversal could lead to mass extinctions and climate chaos—not from the flip ...

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

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

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 ...

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

a series of mass extinction events that occurred 372 million years ago, and the Ordovician, which occurred 445 million years ago and was the first of the big five mass extinction events in our ...

Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass extinctions: those at the end of the Ordovician Period, some 445 million ...

Paleontologists track mass extinctions by studying rock samples ... they’ve found an extinction event. The big five extinctions all wiped out more than 70 percent of Earth life at the time ...

These events are known as the Big Five mass extinctions, and all signs suggest we are now on the precipice of a sixth. The new study that's generated so much conversation estimates that as many as ...