The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of the dinosaurs.

Not all of the mammals survived, for example the dicynodont mammal relatives disappeared. Perhaps the most well-known extinction is the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event, which took ...

Sure, we all know about the asteroid impact that is thought to have wiped out the dinosaurs, but did you know that the Earth ...

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

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely ... while the late Devonian wiped out around 70% of all species and led to huge changes in the kind of fish that existed in ...

For millions of years after the end-Permian mass extinction, the same few marine survivor species show up as fossils all over the planet. A new study reveals what drove this global biological ...

which occurred 445 million years ago and was the first of the big five mass extinction events in our planet's history. 75% of all species, particularly in the types of fish found in ancient seas ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.