A chilling new assessment suggests our planet is hurtling towards an unprecedented loss of life, with human activity squarely ...

Throughout Earth’s history, there have been several global extinction events, wiping out large portions of life across the ...

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

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

Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

Early life had been thriving in a warm greenhouse ... “In my opinion, there are certainly more than five mass extinction events throughout the fossil record,” Monarrez says.

Researchers from the University of Chicago, the Smithsonian Institution and London’s Natural History Museum analysed fossil ...

extinction event (TJME). It was a highly significant event and is classed as one of the ‘Big Five’ mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon. This was a critical event in the evolution of life ...

wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global catastrophic events in Earth’s ...

(Image Credit: Yang Dinghua) Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as ...