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

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 ...

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

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.

[Proxima b: Closest Earth-Like Planet Discovery in Pictures] Supernovae can sterilize ... Although no major mass extinctions happened, there was a higher rate of extinction in general, more ...

Their ancestors survived two mass extinctions, a feat that required ... Natural History Museum and professor in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah.

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 ...

as are all other mass extinctions in the geologic record,” Evans said in a news release. Scott Evans, a postdoctoral researcher with Virginia Tech’s department of geosciences, at a 2021 dig ...

While geologic events caused most previous mass extinctions, the current trend, often referred to as “the sixth mass extinction,” has a different cause: humans. In the modern era, humans have played a ...

These might seem like long time periods to us, but they are merely blips in deep (geologic ... take an earth-shattering event to start a mass extinction. In fact, some people argue that we ...

Large-scale disruptions to life may ultimately increase ecological complexity over geologic timescales ... Refuge from the worst mass extinction in Earth's history discovered fossilized in ...

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 ...