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

Imagine compressing the entire 4.5-billion-year history of Earth into just 10 minutes. In this fast-paced, visually stunning journey, we take you from Earth’s fiery formation to the rise of modern ...

Their appearance pushes back amniotes evolution by 35-40 million years. Between 359 and 350 million years ago, it rained.

Experts have put the normal extinction rate for the planet at between 0.1 and 1 species per 10,000 species/100 years. A mass extinction event is quite different. Here, the loss of species is so ...

The mass extinction that killed 80% of life on Earth 250 million years ago may not have been quite so disastrous for plants, new fossils hint. Scientists have identified a refuge in China where it ...

Life on our planet has experienced many mass extinctions over its 4.5 billion years. Scientists see evidence for at least five major episodes that eradicated creatures great and small. And many ...

The timeline illustrates how swift and dramatic temperature shifts were associated with many of the world’s worst moments — including a mass extinction ... the chart hews closely to estimates ...

But there have been a few times in the past 500 million years where a whole lot of species have disappeared in a short amount of time, in events we call mass extinctions. There have been five of ...

Asteroid impacts and volcanism have led to mass extinctions on our planet. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / NASA / Public Domain Life’s first major catastrophe crept across the planet with the ...

Remember, a mass extinction occurs over 2.8 million years, so there's a little time left. "We can't reverse the clock. It would be great to have an undo button, but we don't.

Without immediate and targeted conservation efforts, informed by a deeper understanding, we risk moving toward a sixth mass extinction event. So our work provides a pivotal call to action.