By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered ...

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A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on Earth.

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From publisher's website. "A vivid tour of Earth's Big Five mass extinctions, the past worlds lost with each, and what they all can tell us about our not-too-distant future. Was it really an asteroid ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years.

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A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using ...

Throughout much of the next 230 million years, shell content soared well above 20 percent, with a significant decrease during one of the “Big Five” mass extinction events in the Late Devonian ...