Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

Most people think a meteor killed the dinosaurs - but that wasn’t Earth’s biggest extinction. The Permian-Triassic extinction ...

Nearly all the trees died. Looy had told me that the Black Triangle was the best place today to see what the world would have looked like after the Permian extinction. This didn't look like ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

when extinction rates sharply exceeded background rates. These occurred at the end of the Ordivician, the Late Devonian, the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) boundary, the end of the Triassic, and the ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

Extinction is a natural part of life on Earth. But occasionally, extinction rates have surged far beyond usual levels, driving mass extinction events that have reshaped the trajectory of life. After a ...

Today’s extinction rates are sky-high. But scientists debate if that’s sufficient evidence to conclude that Earth is undergoing a mass extinction event—or whether that’s even a helpful designation.

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The Mesozoic Era began with the Earth’s worst-ever extinction event. It is referred to as the Permian-Triassic extinction event because it spanned these geological Periods. You may also see it ...