CREDIT: Deposit Photos. Earth’s largest mass extinction, often referred to as the “Great Dying,” occurred about 252 million years ago.

It's safe to say that most of us are familiar with the concept of mass extinction. But this is by no means a recent ...

Everyone knows about the meteor that ended the age of dinosaurs - except that it wasn’t the biggest extinction event. Long ...

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

Throughout its 4.5 billion-year history, Earth has endured numerous mass extinctions, each of which has wiped out more than three-quarters of the planet's species and greatly reduced its biodiversity.

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 final stages of ...

Asteroid impacts and volcanism have led to mass extinctions ... The evolution of life on Earth is not a story of steady progress or linear adjustment. Extinctions both small and cataclysmic ...

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 final stages of ...

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 final stages of ...

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 final stages of ...

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 final stages of a ...