As one of the coldest periods in Earth's history, the Hirnantian Icehouse played a crucial role in the second-largest mass extinction in Earth's history, known as the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction, ...

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Let’s start with a clear definition of what constitutes a mass extinction. Unlike regular extinctions, which occur at a steady background rate — about 10% of species lost every million years — mass ...

A recent study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals evidence that Earth may have had a ring ...

The world and its ecosystems have been around for a long time — so long that the first mass extinction occurred “just shy” of ...

Earth saw its first mass extinction event. This was the Ordovician-Silurian extinction. And a majority of the life that had been spreading around the planet vanished. Many of these lifeforms laid the ...

In the past 500 million years on Earth, there have been five mass extinctions. Here are a few incredible species that managed ...

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A group of scientists concerned about the thousands of species facing extinction believes that their salvation lies not here on Earth but more than 230,000 miles above it. If calamity strikes our ...

It is the story of a charismatic animal rescued from prehistoric times, driven to extinction, and only narrowly saved thanks to the determined efforts of a few visionary Europeans. One hundred ...