The end-Triassic extinction, which happened 201 million years ago, was Earth’s third most severe extinction event since the dawn of animal life. Like today, CO 2 rise and global warming were ...

it initially seemed to scientists as if a space rock impact might be a general mechanism that explained all mass extinction events identified in the geological record. But the end-Cretaceous ...

The Permian–Triassic extinction event, also known as End-Permian Extinction, the Great Dying, and the P–T event, is considered Earth’s most brutal mass extinction event. It occurred about ...

A study that examined the shape of hundreds of fossilized shark teeth suggests that modern shark biodiversity was triggered by the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, about 66 million years ago.

Long before the dawn of humans, dinosaurs, insects or even trees, a cascade of unfortunate events threatened to end life on ... The same theory aligns the second wave of extinction with the end of the ...

The end-Cretaceous extinction is the most well-known ... there is a thin geologic layer that marks the time of the impact event. It contains soot that apparently blanketed the planet after ...

"The end-Guadalupian crisis was considered by many to be only a minor extinction event," Rampino told Newsweek. "The latest data, however, suggest that around 60 percent of marine species became ...

July 14 (UPI) --Researchers said Tuesday that organisms in the ocean's abyss were able to recover quickly after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event which killed off dinosaurs 66 million years ...

A geologically unprecedented reduction in the size of the biosphere occurred across the end-GOE transition." The Great Dying Event, the largest known mass extinction event, killed 96 percent of ...

For decades, we have been trying to unravel the causes of the end-Permian mass extinction, the most devastating extinction event in our planet’s history. The prevailing view is that global ...

“Most major terrestrial niches were occupied by dinosaurs, particularly toward the end ... extinction, as it is interchangeably called, has been hotly debated within the scientific community. However, ...