The world and its ecosystems have been around for a long time — so long that the first mass extinction occurred “just shy” of ...

Our new study reveals that the oceans rapidly heated up all across the world’s low and mid latitudes. Normally, it gets ...

A new study links the largest mass extinction, which occurred 252 million years ago during the Permian-Triassic period, to ...

In the past 500 million years on Earth, there have been five mass extinctions. Here are a few incredible species that managed ...

Let’s start with a clear definition of what constitutes a mass extinction. Unlike regular extinctions, which occur at a steady background rate — about 10% of species lost every million years — mass ...

Mega ocean warming El Niño events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ...

Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on why the ...

How El Nino and Mega Ocean Warming Caused the Greatest-Ever Mass Extinction Sep. 12, 2024 — Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth ...

The eruption of the Siberian Traps, a series of massive volcanic rifts, spewed vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the ...

“This mass extinction event in the Ordovician, this happened hundreds of millions of years before the first dinosaurs ever evolved,” said David Wright, an assistant curator at the Sam Noble Museu ...