The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

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

“For reasons which should become clearer with time, we cannot provide any further details around the root causes of this Permian mass extinction of directors, as we are under legal advice not to ...

Dryolestes, a Late Jurassic relative of the Cretaceous therians. Credit: Artist James Brown, courtesy of Pamela Gill Toward the end of the Cretaceous, flowering plants (angiosperms) transformed ground ...

The gate-all-around field-effect transistor (GAAFET ... Fossils discovered in China indicate that the End-Permian mass extinction, which wiped out 80% of life on Earth, may not have been as ...

On land, large herbivores like Moschops also disappeared. This extinction cleared the way for dinosaurs but wiped out most large amphibians and early archosaurs—creatures that would’ve ...

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire - Why Our Species is on the Edge of Extinction review – survival instincts The Arts Desk 10:45 Fri, 14 Mar A Terrestrial “Life Oasis” From The End-Permian Mass ...

After the end-Permian mass extinction, certain species thrived in warmer, oxygen-depleted waters, spreading globally. This study sheds light on how environmental changes shaped the recovery of marine ...

Credit: Dinghua Yang The team’s findings suggest that some land areas were shielded from the worst effects of the extinction, creating pockets of resilience that played a crucial role in the rebound ...

Life on Earth has indeed thrived over eons, and eventually bounced back following mass extinctions. But might another, stoked by our massive black hole, be in the cards? Grasping how such active ...

While life on Earth does usually find a way, it is not without some intense past–and future–periods of mass death. Extinction is ... driven by volcanoes in the Permian and human actions ...