Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the ...

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

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Scientists are using fossils to help uncover how ancient life survived mass extinction, offering insights for modern ...

If you're an animal living through a mass extinction, it's best to be one that's found a unique way to make a living.A new analysis of the species ...

Study by UChicago, Smithsonian, UK Natural History Museum challenges assumptions about survival after global catastrophe ...

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living ...

"For example, [they have] subterranean structures ... These findings have led to some debate over whether the greatest mass extinction ever deserves the moniker on land. "I will call it a crisis ...

Caption: New research suggests at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were caused by a nearby supernova. Pictured is an example of one of these stellar explosions, Supernova 1987a ...

For example, judging by the decline in fossil diversity, a mass extinction that occurred about 250 million years ago involved the loss of roughly 90 percent of all animal species. "What about the ...