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

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

A groundbreaking study on dinosaur populations leading up to their extinction points to sampling biases within the fossil ...

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

The second extinction event of the Mesozoic Era is the end-Triassic ... and started the evolutionary process that led to life on Earth as we know it today. The truth is that some dinosaurs may ...

Are we too late? Of all the species that have ever existed on Earth, 99% of them are gone. Most of those were wiped out during what are known as "Mass Extinction Events". Since life emerged on our ...

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

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...