Two nearby explosive massive star deaths, or supernovas, may have triggered mass extinction events in Earth's distant past, ...

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

Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth.

The mass extinction that killed 80% of life on Earth 250 million years ago may not have been quite so disastrous for plants, ...

Liu Feng, from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology (NIGPAS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, provides the first conclusive ... The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred ...

During a cataclysmic mass extinction event, there are typically not many places to hide. However, a region of the mountainous Turpan-Hami Basin in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in Western China ...

(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 ...

resulting in a chain of events that could cause a mass extinction. During the Devonian geological era, life thrived on land for the first time, but early land plants and animals making the ...