Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass ...

For decades, the asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has stood as a symbol of total planetary devastation. But ...

Contributed by Kea Giles, Managing Editor, GeologyBoulder, Colo., USA: Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's ...

The extinction of the largest dinosaurs to walk the Earth may have played a critical role in creating an environment that helped fruits evolve, thereby indirectly shaping the evolution of our own ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Speciation and extinction are the twin engines that have sculpted the diversity of life on Earth. Speciation, the process by which new species arise from ancestral populations, is driven by a mixture ...

Sixty-six million years ago, the dinosaurs had a really bad day when a colossal asteroid impact spurred their extinction. But ...

Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from the University of Reading have found. Their study, published today (Tuesday ...

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