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

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

Fifty thousand years ago, North America's landscapes were alive with an astonishing array of enormous creatures. Massive woolly mammoths roamed vast icy plains, while dense forests echoed with the ...

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Life There’s growing evidence the big five mass extinctions never happened Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us ...

If the top five major mass extinctions in the paleontological record each killed off at least 75 percent of species at the time, then the sixth one should theoretically cross the same threshold.

These remarkable arthropods have survived all five major mass extinctions, including the devastating Permian-Triassic extinction that wiped out approximately 96% of marine species. Despite their name, ...

These remarkable arthropods have survived all five major mass extinctions, including the devastating Permian-Triassic extinction that wiped out approximately 96% of marine species. Despite their name, ...

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 ...

IE talks you through all you need to know about the sixth mass extinction on Earth- the first to result from human actions.

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 ...