About 445 million years ago, Earth nearly wiped out life in the oceans. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
A pair of 'Sacabambaspis' fish, around 14 inches (35 centimeters) in length, which had distinct, forward-facing eyes and an ...
During a geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over the supercontinent Gondwana, drying out many of the vast, shallow ...
Some 445 million years ago, life on Earth was forever changed. During the geological blink of an eye, glaciers formed over ...
Scientists have long treated mass extinctions as events locked deep in the fossil record. That framing now feels less distant ...
Earth has a long and dramatic history, and one recurring theme is extinction. Did you know that over the last 500 million years, our planet experienced five major mass extinction events? These events ...
Supernova destroying planet, illustration. A rocky planet lies in the wake of its star, which has just gone supernova. The explosion shatters the planet. A complete census of massive stars in our part ...
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(CNN) — Humans have wiped out more than 100 species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass ...
We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­â€” at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology.
In a new Science Advances study, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have now proved that ...