More Than 99% Of All Species That Have Ever Existed On Earth Are Already Extinct. Throughout History, Five Mass Extinction ...

Earth has a flair for dramatic resets, though it usually takes millions of years to deliver them. Over its long history, life has been knocked back by volcanic eruptions, climate swings, changing seas ...

The "Big Five" mass extinctions of the Phanerozoic Eon have long attracted significant attention from the geoscience community and the public. Among them, the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME) is ...

Life on Earth took a long evolutionary journey that eventually created us, the purportedly intelligent species that dominates ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s history ...

We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology.

A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species. It is usually not a short, one-time incident but rather something that occurs over thousands or millions ...

About 66 million years ago – perhaps on a downright unlucky day in May – an asteroid smashed into our planet. The fallout was immediate and severe. Evidence shows that about 70% of species went ...