Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. What happened next, in the direct aftermath ...

Nearly one million years ago, humanity came perilously close to disappearing. A new study reveals that our ancestors may have been reduced to just 1,280 individuals, leaving the human race on the ...

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. By Laura Baisas Published Mar 12, 2025 2:00 PM EDT Get ...

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 ...

excursions, and depletion of C org to near zero. Benthic foraminifers show a significant diversity increase: a modest origination event (OM9) occurs among molluscs. The major effects of these ...

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "Life oasis" for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis ...

A new report from researchers at Berkeley, Stanford, and Princeton suggests that humanity has kicked off the sixth extinction level event in our planet's history, even after using extremely ...