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

This coincided with a mass extinction, likely the worst in Earth's history.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need ...

Earth's history is marked by devastating mass extinctions, each one reshaping life as we know it. Now, experts warn that humanity may be triggering the next catastrophic event. The rate of species ...

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

In the first and only reconstruction of ocean pH ever carried out, new research from the University of St Andrews and the ...

Here’s a look back at the five major extinction events over the past 500 million years—each one wiping out more than half of life on Earth in a relatively short time. 1. Ordovician extinction ...

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 ...

In many ways, it cleaned out some of the lineages that had been lingering from previous extinctions. What Caused the Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) Extinction Event?

Life rebounded from each of the Big Five mass extinctions throughout Earth’s history, eventually punching through past diversity highs.

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research. During the final stages ...