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

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 ...

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience community and the public. Among them, the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME ...

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 ...

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

About 66 million years ago - perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May - an asteroid smashed into our planet.Author Stewart Edie Research ...

In the history of Earth, we have documented five major extinctions—cataclysmic events in which the majority of species die out due to some worldwide change—and are currently edging towards the sixth ...

"How ecosystems recover from mass extinctions is a huge question for the field at the moment, given that we're pushing towards one right now." 'Extremely statistically unlikely' In the history of ...

Earth has experienced five documented mass extinctions to date. With the sixth extinction around the corner, scientists are looking to the past to try and understand how life continues on after one of ...