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

The most dangerous parts of a supernova explosion are the outputs like X-rays and gamma rays. Even though they only share a ...

Some biologists conclude that humans owe our present dominance to a mass extinction -- the K/T event that saw the end of the dinosaurs and cleared the way for mammals to diversify into all the ...

This wasn't the first mass extinction in our planet's history ... also known as the K-T extinction) left an indelible mark on ...

Scientists have discovered levels of iridium 30 times greater than average in the Cretaceous/Tertiary (KT) boundary, the layer of sedimentary rock laid down at the time of the dinosaur extinction.

The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," took place 251.9 million years ago. At that time, the supercontinent Pangea was in the process of breaking up, but all land on ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Some scientists contend that we’re heading toward what would be the sixth mass extinction in the history of life on ...

Some scientists think human activity might be causing a mass extinction now. Humans are destroying natural habitats and global warming is causing environments to change rapidly! And this is ...

(Image Credit: Yang Dinghua) Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as ...

But what was the world like in the millions of years leading up to this this mass extinction? Our dinosaur expert Dr Susie Maidment and fossil plant expert Dr Paul Kenrick explore what the world was ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Permian mass extinction, 252 million years ago, was linked to a 10°C rise in global temperatures due to massive volcanic CO 2 emissions. This led to climate ...