A Tyrannosaurus rex has arrived at Greenwich, CT's Bruce Museum as part of a new traveling exhibition that takes visitors through the mass extinctions that reshaped life on Earth. “Six Extinctions” ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s history ...

About 201 million years ago, at the close of a geological period called the Triassic, one of the worst mass extinctions in ...

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UC College of Arts and Sciences Professor Thomas Algeo has been studying the planet's five major mass extinctions since the Ordovician Period, when global sea levels were much higher than today. In a ...

One of the most devastating extinctions in Earth's history is best known for what didn't die—dinosaurs. But the end-Triassic ...

Flowering plants survived Earth's worst disasters, including the asteroid strike that ended the dinosaurs, while many others vanished. A sweeping genomic analysis suggests ancient DNA doubling may ...

An international collaboration involving researchers from the University of Western Australia, the University of Ottawa and several partner institutions specializing in geosciences has identified ...

The transition across the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary, approximately 66 million years ago, marks one of the most profound mass extinctions in Earth’s history, characterised by the demise of ...

Around 66 million years ago, a gigantic asteroid smashed into Earth and wreaked chaos globally. It's not too surprising that size would be linked to survival, Lacovara said. On land, "it's pretty ...