Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

The relative invulnerability of marine life is a key difference from previous mass extinctions, in which ocean species—particularly clams, snails, and ammonites—were slammed, Witts adds. “When we ...

About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into the planet, wiping out all non-avian dinosaurs and about 70% of all marine species. But the crater it left behind in the Gulf of Mexico was a ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

The Chicxulub asteroid crater supported marine life for 700,000 years, showing that some mass extinction events may help life ...

The extinction ended up erasing about 80-90% of marine species and approximately 70% of land-based vertebrate families, ...

Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of ...

Next is the Mesozoic Era, which means ‘middle life’ and spans 252 to 66 million years ... Sea levels rose and the oceans ...

About 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid slammed into Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, along with around 70% of all ...

Our warming planet is now a fact of life. For centuries, abnormal temperature fluctuations have existed and affected our ...

Scientists estimate that the current extinction rate is about 1,000 times ... including birds and marine life. Traditional ...

The findings, published in Science Advances, offer insight into life's recovery ... that killed most marine organisms 252 million years ago. But the extinction alone doesn't explain the bizarre ...