Around 74,000 years ago, Mount Toba in present-day Indonesia unleashed one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in Earth's ...

Without humans, what would happen to Earth? 'After every extinction event the place is devastated, but life is so resilient.' Lauren Leffer Nov 4, 2024 9:00 AM EST ...

You’ve heard it before: we’re well into the sixth mass extinction of life on earth. Only this time, unlike the other five big ones, humans are overwhelmingly the killers responsible. As we ...

Extinction Events We, quite rightly, worry about how the activities of humans are leading to the extinction of animal species alive today. However, extinction is not a modern phenomenon.

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for over 150 million years. Compared to the mere 4–6 million years that scientists believe humans and their earliest ancestors have been on the planet, it wouldn’t be ...

This mass extinction event would wipe humanity off the face of the Earth—there would be no survivors. To some experts, this is the true definition of an “existential threat.” ...

Royer told me that the mass extinction currently threatening our future is not be the first such event in Earth’s history (but it is the first caused by humans). Paleobotanists have identified five ...

But scientists say that we’re currently undergoing a sixth mass extinction event at this very moment — one caused in large part by human activity. Humans are responsible for the total ...

A rumor circulated online in late 2024 claiming Elon Musk once pondered the future of humanity facing two options: an "extinction event" or the achievement of multiplanetary exploration. For ...