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

Ever since the world was formed more than four billion years ago, it has seen a number of mass extinctions that have almost ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

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The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

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

A mass extinction event is when species vanish much faster than they are replaced. This is usually defined as about 75% of the world's species being lost in a short period of geological time - less ...

A mass extinction event is already underway. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The present extinction rate of life on Earth ...

The sixth mass extinction is not a worry for the future. It’s happening now – much faster than previously expected – and it’s entirely our fault, according to a new study.

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

Scientists define a mass extinction as around three-quarters of all species dying out over a short geological time, which is anything less than 2.8 million years, according to The Conversation.