Extinction is a natural process, but it’s happening at 1,000 times the normal speed Published: July 6, 2018 7:28am EDT. Elizabeth Boakes, David Redding, UCL. Authors. ...

Dinosaur extinction changed plant evolution Effects of missing large herbivores on food plants still detectable today Date: May 2, 2022 Source: German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research ...

That mass extinction was an accelerated event that resulted from an asteroid strike that triggered sudden environmental and climactic changes that wiped out 75% or more of all terrestrial animal ...

This graph plots extinction rates of marine animal families over the last 600 million years. The shaded band indicates the normal range of extinction rates, known as "background extinction." The ...

The highest portion of threatened trees is found on islands like Fiji, Cuba and Madagascar. In South America, which is home to the Amazon Rainforest, 3,356 out of the 13,668 assessed tree species ...

Extinction is natural, but it’s happening at 1,000 times the normal speed. Studies show that extinction affects some species more than others, resulting in biodiversity loss that can disrupt ...