More information: Stewart M. Edie et al, The end-Cretaceous mass extinction restructured functional diversity but failed to configure the modern marine biota, Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126 ...

Modern-day lizards, snakes, frogs and mammals — including us — may owe their existence to a mass extinction of ancient fish 360 million years ago that left the oceans relatively barren ...

New Haven, Conn. - A Yale-led study urges scientists to move their focus from species extinction to species rarity in order to recognize, and avoid, a mass extinction in the modern world. Writing ...

How to see a mass extinction if it's right in front of you Date: December 16, 2015 Source: Yale University Summary: A new study urges scientists to move their focus from species extinction to ...

Five mass extinctions have occurred so far in the history of life on Earth. ... About 1% of the world’s known 39,000 modern vertebrate species have been lost -- but 99% remain, ...

Mass extinction is probably the most striking pattern in the fossil record. ... A modern wolf is probably a far more dangerous predator than a velociraptor, ...

One of the most notorious mass extinction events in modern times occurred on a hilltop in coastal Ecuador in the 1980s. Ninety species of plants known from nowhere else on Earth—many of them new ...

One of the most notorious mass extinction events in modern times occurred on a hilltop in coastal Ecuador in the 1980s. Ninety species of plants known from nowhere else on Earth -- many of them ...

Likewise, the Carnian pluvial episode, a smaller mass-extinction event that I’m also fond of and that occurred some 230 million years ago, was so pivotal that the scientists who study this ...

Mass extinction 183 million years ago offers dire warning for modern oceans The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event released 20,500 gigatons of CO2. Humanity has generated 12 percent of that in 0.1 ...

The mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period is perhaps the most famous in history. Over 66 million years ago, a 15-kilometer-wide asteroid struck what is now Mexico and changed life on ...