For millions of years, large herbivores like mastodons and giant deer shaped the Earth's ecosystems, which astonishingly ...

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

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

The greatest mass extinction at the end of the Permian ... Meanwhile, Micro-CT scanning (SkyScan 1172 X-ray; State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology) was employed to reconstruct ...

What can modern-day crocodiles, alligators, and gharials tell scientists about how to survive mass extinctions? Well, quite a bit. When researching what it takes to survive, scientists have overlooked ...

Scientists now believe Earth may be on the edge of its sixth mass extinction, triggered by alarming biodiversity loss, habitat destruction, climate change, and rising extinction rates among ...

These mass extinctions—defined as events that eliminate over 75% of species in a geologically short interval—have reshaped life on our planet repeatedly. While these events are devastating, they also ...

These mass extinctions—defined as events that eliminate over 75% of species in a geologically short interval—have reshaped life on our planet repeatedly. While these events are devastating, they also ...

Two important concepts in evolutionary biology, mutualism and altruism, were first made famous by the colorful anarchist prince Peter Kropotkin. He argued that cooperation could be an equally ...

This fossil-rich landscape tells the story of Earth's most devastating mass extinction—and can help ... time in these mountains investigating the geologic fingerprints of the Permian period.

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