Burning coal caused the largest mass extinction in earth's history — the Late Permian Mass Extinction, or the Great Dying.

Move over, TikTokers. It's time to shine a spotlight on some of the earliest influencers around: dinosaurs. When these ecosystem engineers were in their heyday, forest canopies were open and seeds were small. But around the time most dinosaurs were wiped out, paleontologists noticed an interesting shift in the fossil record: Seeds got bigger — much bigger. There was a fruit boom. Did the death of these dinosaurs…

Terrestrial plants may have caused the End-Devonian Extinction, but its origin is still shrouded in mystery.

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If greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed, temperature spikes could bring the first such mass extinction in 250 million years

If we continue on our current trajectory, the sixth mass extinction is inevitable and the times we're living through now will be part of that geological period.

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How long did the Ordovician period last, and what caused the Ordovician mass extinction to wipe out 85 percent of life on earth 445 million years ago?

Plants thrived in present-day China throughout the End-Permian extinction.

Some species go extinct obviously and fast, but just as often, the process can be hard to detect until it's too late.

In which the dinosaurs go extinct and 66 million years later people get angry about it.What killed the dinosaurs? Maybe you think you know.Many others though...

There have been five Mass Extinction events in the history of Earth's biodiversity, all caused by dramatic but natural phenomena. It has been claimed that the Sixth Mass Extinction may be underway, t...

As a philosopher of science, Alisa Bokulich grapples with weighty questions like, how can scientific models represent a system as complex as the Earth? How can we reconstruct Earth's 4.5-billion-year history using only the few traces of data left in the present? Are we approaching a sixth mass extinction?

Virginia Tech researchers discovered a sixth mass extinction that took place on earth nearly 550 million years ago due to a drop in oxygen.

Dec. 6—It's a clear and chilling warning: The globe's creatures and plants are on the brink of a sixth mass extinction, comparable to the one that wiped out ...

Ants learned to work with fungi back in a world where only fungi could thrive.

Just look at the numbers: despite interest rate hikes and a slash in venture capital, new business creation is going strong

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Ichthyosaur bones found in 250 million-year-old rock hint that these swimming reptiles may have appeared before Earth's biggest mass extinction and survived