For decades, scientists treated the end of Earth’s habitability as a problem for the far future, measured in several billion ...
Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere faces a finite lifespan of about 1.08 billion years before a sharp decline, according to a ...
East-west coastlines trap marine species during warming, blocking escape routes and increasing extinction risk over millions ...
Backed by a National Science Foundation grant of more than $500,000, Pfeifer, the lead principal investigator, and a team of ...
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 ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely explained, according to a theory put forward in new research.During the final stages of a ...
Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...
Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...