Everyone knows about the meteor that ended the age of dinosaurs - except that it wasn’t the biggest extinction event. Long ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

CREDIT: Nick Fitzhardinge via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science ... dead ends on the tree of life. [ Related: Earth’s 5 catastrophic mass extinctions, explained. ] However, throughout ...

It's safe to say that most of us are familiar with the concept of mass extinction. But this is by no means a recent ...

Simultaneous explosions of stars, called supernovae, may have led to one of Earth's mass extinctions 359 million years ago, according to new research. Several global extinction events occurred ...

A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to ...

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

Why past mass extinctions didn't break ecosystems—But this one might. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 06 / 250609020620.htm ...

“How ecosystems recover from mass extinctions is a huge question for the field at the moment, given that we’re pushing towards one right now.” In the history of Earth, we have documented five major ...

Planetary boundaries outline how far past pre-industrial conditions Earth can get before anthropogenic activity has ...

Earth has experienced five documented mass extinctions to date. With the sixth extinction around the corner, scientists are looking to the past to try and understand how life continues on after one of ...