A limestone quarry in Hunan province, China, has yielded more than 150 species dating back approximately 512 million years — ...

Scientists say a Chinese fossil site offers the first major look at life after the Sinsk mass extinction.

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

Mass extinction events have ravaged life on Earth at least five times over the last 450 million years or so — and according to scientists, humankind has already kicked off the sixth. The team led by ...

(CNN) — No species lasts forever — extinction is part of the evolution of life. But at least five times, a biological catastrophe has engulfed the planet, killing off the vast majority of species from ...

A study on the Sixth Mass Extinction titled "Relationship between extinction magnitude and climate change during major marine and terrestrial animal crises" has been published in the journal ...

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