A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

This series of mass extinctions during the Devonian period eventually eliminated about 75 percent of life. However, some of Earth’s oldest fish called coelacanths make it out unscathed.

This coincided with a mass extinction, likely the worst in Earth's history.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need ...

The one two-punch would lead 85 percent of marine species to disappear—and come to be known to paleontologists as our world’s first mass extinction. Extinction is a fact of life.

The trigger for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event was the eruption of massive amounts of molten rock in modern day ...

The K-Pg extinction is the most recent of five events in Earth’s history that scientists consider mass extinctions, defined by paleontologists as events where more than 75 percent of species vanish ...

Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

Has Life on Earth Survived More Than Five Mass Extinctions? Scientists aren’t just arguing whether humans are causing a sixth mass extinction event now, but whether many more occurred in the past.