The Earth has gone through many major events over the course of hundreds of millions of years. Some of the most significant ...

A Mass Extinction That Reshaped Life The end-Permian event was triggered by massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia, releasing toxic gases, sparking wildfires, and altering the climate.

After Earth’s greatest extinction, it wasn’t just volcanic fury that kept the planet hot; it was the death of tropical ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian ...

Even during one of Earth’s largest mass extinction events, where heat waves kill of a majority of Earth’s species, at least one oasis of survival existed. The findings suggest that there may have been ...

Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major mass extinction events. Each one took a considerable fraction of all the ...

RAISE THE BAR presents Killer Asteroids: The Next Extinction Event? Chris Herd Curator of the University of Alberta Meteorite Collection We live on a planet in a Solar System that has lots of ...

Shortly after an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, life for non-avian dinosaurs ended, but the evolutionary story for the early ancestors of birds began. The fossil record tells us ...

The extinction potential of supervolcanoes has animated a number of theories of widespread societal collapse, including the fall of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization, which suddenly disappeared ...

Marine life is fleeing the equator to cooler waters. History tells us this could trigger a mass extinction event by Anthony Richardson, Professor, The University of Queensland; Chhaya Chaudhary ...