For millions of years, large herbivores like mastodons and giant deer shaped the Earth's ecosystems, which astonishingly ...

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience ...

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

Because of its prehistoric past as a possible mass extinction gravesite ... For Kenneth Lacovara, a professor of paleontology and geology at nearby Rowan University and the museum’s executive ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything ... They may even be responsible for some of the “mini” mass extinctions which punctuate the fossil record. His work began with a different ...

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 ...

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.

The current paper is intended to get the conversation started about how to conserve the planet's most endangered species, and mitigate the impact of the ongoing mass extinction, in an economically ...

The most famous of these mass extinction events — when an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, dooming the dinosaurs and many other species — is also the most recent. But ...

What is the core of your research? I focus on investigating mass extinctions. There have been five major ones and around a dozen lesser extinctions. The one event that stands out from the rest ...

The research looked at peaks in biodiversity loss and their relationship with atmospheric CO2, finding 50 events over the last 534 million years that can be considered mass extinctions. When you ...