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

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At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

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

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

Even during one of Earth's largest mass extinction events, where heat waves kill of a majority of Earth's species, at least ...

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New research suggests that powerful star explosions, called supernovae, may have caused at least two mass extinctions in ...

Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.