The world around us is constantly changing, and with these changes come questions that challenge our understanding of life on Earth. One such question is ... Read more The post Are We Entering the ...

In 1938, zoologist Ellis Le Geyt Troughton mourned that Australia's "gentle and specialized creatures" were "unable to cope ...

While life on Earth does usually find a way, it is not without some intense past–and future–periods of mass death. Extinction is not exclusive to dinosaurs. Our planet has gone through at ...

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history, according to new research. The explosive supernova deaths of ...

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They get cooked and then they die. And since they form the very base layer of the food chain, you end up with a whole ecosystem collapse and a mass extinction. What's the risk? We've done the math.

On land, large herbivores like Moschops also disappeared. This extinction cleared the way for dinosaurs but wiped out most large amphibians and early archosaurs—creatures that would’ve ...

Apr. 1, 2025 — More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has ... Mar. 31, 2025 — A new study ...

(CNN) — Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research. During the ...