British paleontologist Thomas Halliday reveals how extinction is intimately linked to evolution in his book, Otherlands. He chronicles 16 extinct ecosystems over the past 520 million years to show ...

Mass extinction was a feature of earthly life, not a bug: the planet goes through one roughly every 62 million years, and we’re already overdue.

Not everything dies in a mass extinction. Sea life recovered in different and surprising ways after the asteroid strike 66 million years ago. Ancient fossils recorded it all.

Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction Events Publication Trend The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction Events.

The study also pinpoints the time of both the Moroccan eruption and the start of the mass extinction at 201,564,000 years ago. The deadly ancient volcanoes weren't mountains.

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using ...

Michael Shellenberger: No, humans are not causing a 'sixth mass extinction' By Michael Shellenberger, Special to National Post Published Jan 16, 2023 Last updated Jan 16, 2023 ...