A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the ...

About 250 million years ago, Earth faced its greatest catastrophe. The End-Permian Event wiped out more than 80% of ocean ...

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the end-Permian mass extinction around 252 million years ago, according to new ...

But the first major mass extinction was way before that – about 443 million years ago. It’s called the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Back then, most living things were in the ocean.

A study published in 2023 suggests that nearly 1 million years ago, humanity almost ceased to exist. This potential mass extinction event was discovered by researchers when they began analyzing ...

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

It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. ... Experts have put the normal extinction rate for the planet at between 0.1 and 1 species per 10,000 species/100 years. A mass extinction ...

Feb. 18, 2021 — The temporary breakdown of Earth's magnetic field 42,000 years ago sparked major climate shifts that led to global environmental change and mass extinctions, a new international ...

In the history of Earth, we have documented five major extinctions—cataclysmic events in which the majority of species die out due to some worldwide change—and are currently edging towards the sixth ...