A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

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

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth was nearly lifeless, with nearly all life forms wiped out. This event, known as the ...

This extinction event, often referred to as the "Great Dying," is the largest to ever hit Earth. It wiped out some 90% of all the planet's species and decimated the reptiles, insects and ...

In 1982, Jack Sepkoski and David M. Raup published a paper identifying five mass extinction events throughout Earth's history. Now a team of researchers claims that we are now entering a sixth ...

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Now, researchers have discovered a new mass extinction event, one that happened 2.05 billion years ago and likely killed between 80 percent and 99.5 percent of all of life on Earth.

Geobiologists shine new light on Earth's first known mass extinction event 550 million years ago. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 11 ...

"Earth is now in a period of mass global species extinction for vertebrate animals," Ceballos says, "but the true extent of this mass extinction has been underestimated".