A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

How did Earth's last mass extinction unfold? Explore what led to it, what was lost, and how life ultimately found ways to ...

The study claims that Earth's continents are drifting and will one day form a single supercontinent. This will be accompanied ...

When a mass extinction event 66 million years ago wiped out three-quarters of the world’s plants and animals – including the ...

For a long time, scientists have debated what caused the dinosaurs to die out 66 million years ago. Was it a huge asteroid or ...

Since the Cambrian explosion, five further major mass extinctions have significantly exceeded the background extinction rate. The most recent and arguably best-known, the Cretaceous–Paleogene ...

Lyson at Denver Museum of Nature & Science in Denver, CO, and colleagues was titled, "Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction." ...

This is commonly referred to as the "Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event" (try saying that four times fast!). This theory was first made by the geologist Walter Alvarez and his father Luis ...

Scientists from ANU and CSIRO have used genomic analysis to reconstruct the evolutionary tree of more than 300 darkling ...

Similarly, a 2021 study in the journal Communications Earth & Environment found that past extinction rates ... higher than it was during the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event which killed ...