The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event is the most recent mass extinction and the only one definitively connected to a major asteroid impact. Some 76 percent of all species on the planet ...

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

Dr. Spencer Lucas Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Natural History and Science Museum in Albuquerque, speaks to an ...

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 chilling new assessment suggests our planet is hurtling towards an unprecedented loss of life, with human activity squarely in the spotlight.

Some of these took place during the Mesozoic Era. Early Mesozoic Mass Extinction Event. Trilobites were wiped out during the Great Dying after having lived on Earth for more than 300 million years.

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living species. The age of dinosaurs, which had lasted 165 million years, ended ...

Extinction is a fact of life. Of all the species that have ever evolved on our planet, the overwhelming majority no longer exist. Even as life continues to evolve and respond to Earth’s ever ...

Defaunation is the loss or decline of animal species around the world, a phenomenon which is accelerating in recent years and negatively impacts global biodiversity. Termed the “sixth mass extinction, ...

Chennai: If one were to write the history of humankind from a climatic perspective, it would have a pre-2024 era and a ...

Study reshapes understanding of mass extinction in Late Devonian era. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 12 / 231207161509.htm. Indiana University.

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 ...