Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the ...

Research data suggests humans may have nearly gone extinct almost 1 million years ago, but scientists aren't sure why.

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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 ...

Should this be the case, the next mass extinction event will be the seventh, not the sixth. Still, in our defense, we did note earlier that we were discussing mass extinctions within the last 500 ...

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 ...