New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

The six-mile-wide asteroid punched a one-way ticket toward extinction for all non-avian dinosaurs. Some 66 million years ...

She believes that the Permian extinction ... many mass extinctions that have struck the planet. The most famous die-off ended the reign of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago between the Cretaceous ...

New map of ‘mega ripples’ caused by dinosaur-killing asteroid helps recreate extinction event - Findings may help predict ...

When we talk about mass extinction events ... the extinction of the dinosaurs. However, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was not the worst loss of life in our planet’s history.

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

The most recent of these events occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period ... we are currently witnessing the start of a sixth mass extinction. Humans are dramatic ecosystem engineers ...

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

An international team of scientists has synchronized key climate records from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to unravel the sequence of events during the last million years before the extinction of ...

Celestial events have triggered at least one mass extinction ... Researchers first identified the cause of the end-Cretaceous extinction by the discovery of the “iridium anomaly” — a ...

The most recent of these events occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago ... It is widely accepted that we are currently witnessing the start of a sixth mass extinction.