It's safe to say that most of us are familiar with the concept of mass extinction. But this is by no means a recent ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

This unprecedented die-off is now known as the earth’s first mass extinction, the Late Ordovician mass extinction or simply LOME. Many researchers have devoted time, or even careers, to uncovering the ...

Deeper in time, a mass extinction event that ended the Devonian Period, a geological era when life thrived on land for the first time, was also attributed to a hyperthermal event likely triggered ...

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to ...

The grant will help them investigate the first major mass extinction in Earth’s history, according to the press release. The funding is part of a $1.17 million collaborative effort between OU ...

For the first time, we are trying to put our finger on a geologically superlative event while it’s happening. —Jacquelyn Gill, University of Maine The K-Pg extinction is the most recent of five events ...

"Horizon yet this is extremely important as we know that purchasing conservation land is only the first step in creating ... the impact of the ongoing mass extinction, in an economically and ...

mountain-building and massive volcanism may have played some role in the pulses of Late Devonian mass extinctions, but plants—in particular the world’s first trees—appear to essentially have ...

(CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of ...