Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

Our oceans are as remarkable as they are mysterious; the deep dark waters as foreign to us as far-reaching planets. Though ...

New fossil evidence has revealed that the collapse of tropical forests during the Earth’s most devastating extinction event ...

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A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...

Biomass reveals the real impact and energy flow of life in an ecosystem, like knowing not just the cast of a play, but who ...

In the end, over 90 per cent of marine life and 70 per cent of land animals were wiped out in the single worst extinction ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

The Earth is rapidly warming, and similar climate upheavals over 300 million years ago once triggered massive fluctuations in marine life.

Scientists have warned that the planet crossed the global boundary for ocean acidification around the year 2020, according to a new study.

Has Life on Earth Survived More Than Five Mass Extinctions? Scientists aren’t just arguing whether humans are causing a sixth mass extinction event now, but whether many more occurred in the past ...