About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...

Discover how the first mass extinction put jawed fishes on the map, species that would later come to dominate animal life on ...

Now, evidence suggests that some of these spiral-shaped species did manage to persist after all. Recent analysis of ammonite ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...

In a new Science Advances study, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have now proved that from this biological havoc, known as the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction ...

Researchers have gone back in time to find an extinction event that predates all other known events of their kind. The extinction event, which occurred during the Ediacaran Period roughly 550 million ...

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A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species. It is usually not a short, one-time incident but rather something that occurs over thousands or millions ...

Guryul ravine in Kashmir preserves the world's clearest geological record of the "Great Dying", Earth's most devastating mass ...

The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...