This graph plots extinction rates of marine animal families over the last 600 million years. The shaded band indicates the normal range of extinction rates, known as "background extinction." ...

Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a ...

Humans' early mammal relatives likely diversified 66 million years ago, after the extinction of dinosaurs opened up space for animals such ... Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference this ...

But why does it take so long for species diversity to recover after a mass extinction event? Animals and plants evolve ... into how climate shaped their evolution,” Dr. Fraass said in a press ...

The absence of large herbivores after the extinction of the dinosaurs changed the evolution of plants ... Since plants and herbivorous animals influence each other, the question arises whether ...

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience ...

The aerial photograph on the left shows the Transamazonian highway just after completion ... with it into extinction. By some estimates, as much as 30 percent of the world's animals and plants ...

If humans disappeared from the face of the Earth, letting evolution run its course, what would animals ... came out, After Man was often portrayed in the media as a book about the extinction ...

It lasted approximately 79 million years, from the minor extinction ... work on angiosperm evolution in the journal New Phytologist. The shape of some teeth from Cretaceous animals suggests ...

A "de-extinction ... (after the character in "Game of Thrones", a series which popularised dire wolves) two months later. The main changes made to the genes were "intended to alter the animals ...