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

You’re probably familiar with classic sauropod dinosaurs – the four-legged herbivores famous for their long necks and tails. Animals such as Brachiosaurus, Apatosaurus and Diplodocus have been ...

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

unstable resource availability on land. The end-Permian mass extinction event, 252 million years ago, was the largest ever, marked by the loss of as many as 90% of species. A key line of research ...

Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of species by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial predators, academics have found.

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

We're in the midst of the Earth’s sixth mass extinction ... Forty percent of the planet’s land is devoted to human food production, up from 7 percent in 1700 [3]. Fifty percent of the planet’s land ...

Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions ... that could cause a mass extinction. During the Devonian geological era, life thrived on land for the first time ...