On land, large herbivores like Moschops also disappeared. This extinction cleared the way for dinosaurs but wiped out most large amphibians and early archosaurs—creatures that would’ve ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

As astronomer Carl Sagan once said, we are "made of star stuff," as this research suggests, we may also be at the mercy of it ...

There’s no single reason sharks survived all five major extinction events – all had different causes and different groups of sharks pulled through each one. One general theme, however, seems to be the ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...

This realization led Wright and his coauthors to connect the cosmic phenomenon with mass extinctions on Earth. Cataclysmic events have taken place five times in the past 500 million years ...

This realization led Wright and his co-authors to connect the cosmic phenomenon with mass extinctions on Earth. Cataclysmic events have taken place five times in the past 500 million years ...