And while every mass extinction has winners and losers ... A single genus groups one or more different but related species — for example the genus Canis includes wolves, dogs, coyotes and ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

Mass extinctions are periods in Earth’s history ... the bald eagle in the United States and the giant panda in China are examples of successful conservation efforts. These stories highlight ...

Is the biosphere today on the verge of anything like the mass extinctions of the geological ... dead because of their interrelationships -- for example, the loss of a pollinator can doom the ...

Of the five mass extinctions that paleontologists recognize ... The recently named Mbiresaurus raathi from Zimbabwe, for example, was a bipedal herbivorous dinosaur about the size and weight ...

The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event released 20,500 gigatons of CO2. Humanity has generated 12 percent of that in 0.1 percent of the time. By Andrew Paul Published Jun 25, 2024 11:18 AM EDT Get the ...

In many mass extinctions, "quite a lot of things survive ... But events like the end-Triassic serve as extreme examples of climate change that we ought to understand far better before we are ...

One of these species—from the Colombian Andes—represents the earliest known example ... following the extinction of the dinosaurs. An artist's 3D rendering illustrating the mass extinction ...