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Mass extinction events empty many ... However, a new analysis published last week (June 30) in Geology suggests that new, often faster rates of speciation prevail for hundreds of years after ...

Krug and David Jablonski, will publish their findings in the August issue of the journal Geology. Scientists expected to see an evolutionary explosion immediately following a mass extinction, but Krug ...

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

Scientists conclude that movement through dark matter may perturb the orbits of comets and lead to additional heating in the Earth's core, both of which could be connected with mass extinction events.

An international team of researchers discovered evidence that a mass extinction 260 million years ... He is optimistic that geology will unlock more mysteries about prehistoric life on Earth.

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience ...

A study on the Sixth Mass ... extinction magnitude using only surface temperature is difficult because the causes of the anthropogenic extinction differ from causes of mass extinctions in geologic ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything ... They may even be responsible for some of the “mini” mass extinctions which punctuate the fossil record. His work began with a different ...

Analyzing the pattern of Earth’s passes through the galactic disk, Rampino notes that these disk passages seem to correlate with times of comet impacts and mass extinctions of life. The famous ...