It seems some species of megafauna may have existed for much longer than previously assumed. For a long time, the overall ...

The current period of extinction is known as the Holocene extinction event, sometimes referred to as the sixth extinction, as there have been five distinctive periods of mass extinction previously.

We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis. Harvard biologist E ... Humans’ impact has been so profound that scientists have proposed that the Holocene era be declared over and the ...

A research team led by Prof. An Zhisheng and Prof. Zhou Weijian from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese ...

The Pleistocene and Holocene epochs have been crucial periods for understanding the evolution and extinction of various animal species in the Caribbean Islands. These periods are characterized by ...

and it's often hard to predict in advance how long an event will last. Officially, volcanologists consider a volcano active if it has erupted sometime during the Holocene Epoch, which started ...