A new study challenges long-held assumptions about survival following a global catastrophe. If you're an animal trying to survive a mass extinction, your best bet might be to carve out a truly unique ...

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Mass extinctions clearly upend the status quo. Now, our ocean floors are dominated by clams burrowed into sand and mud, the quahogs, cockles and their relatives – a scene far different from that of ...

Research data suggests humans may have nearly gone extinct almost 1 million years ago, but scientists aren't sure why.

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Farther back in our planet’s history, volcanic eruptions, rapid climate change, and plummeting oxygen levels have caused at least four additional mass extinctions, with smaller pulses of ...

Experts have put the normal extinction rate for the planet at between 0.1 and 1 species per 10,000 species/100 years. A mass extinction event is quite different. Here, the loss of species is so ...

Should this be the case, the next mass extinction event will be the seventh, not the sixth. Still, in our defense, we did note earlier that we were discussing mass extinctions within the last 500 ...

Life on our planet has experienced many mass extinctions over its 4.5 billion years. Scientists see evidence for at least five major episodes that eradicated creatures great and small. And many ...

Earth is currently in the midst of a mass extinction, losing thousands of species each year. New research suggests environmental changes caused the first such event in history, which occurred millions ...

Asteroid impacts and volcanism have led to mass extinctions on our planet. Illustration by Emily Lankiewicz / NASA / Public Domain Life’s first major catastrophe crept across the planet with the ...

Remember, a mass extinction occurs over 2.8 million years, so there's a little time left. "We can't reverse the clock. It would be great to have an undo button, but we don't.