Ozone-depleting chemicals may have caused the largest mass extinction in history
A massive volcano in Siberia killed 90% of all life, and halogen chemicals spewed by it played a major role.
Tag: mass extinction
Mass extinctions don’t come out of the blue — and we’re seeing some of the signs today
An incoming mass extinction isn't as hard to spot as we'd believed.
Selective wipe out of large marine species sets the stage for an unprecedented sixth mass extinction
Large marine species are favorably lost which could disrupt marine ecosystems for millions of years.
World’s first mass extinction might have been caused by animals
Looks like it's not always asteroids.
Ancient rocks reveal causes of Earth’s greatest mass extinction event
The new findings call our current theories on the mass extinction event into question.
Ancient supernovae might have contributed to Earth mass extinction
Death from the heavens.
It pays to be a small fish in a big pond after a mass extintion
Some 360 million years ago, the oceans were teeming with big fish, some as big as a school bus. Then ...
Some models no longer available: Earth enters its 6th mass extinction phase, humans accelerate the losses
Geological evidence indicates that our planet has seen five mass extinction cycles since life first appeared on the planet. While ...
Marine life might need 1,000 years to recover from climate change
Marine life is on the brink of experiencing its sixth mass extinction, a disruption that is expected to occur very ...
Plants are much better at adapting to mass extinction than animals
Life has found our blue gem planet as a welcoming host, but it hasn't always been all fun and games. ...
We’re heading towards a sixth major extinction
Species on Earth are disappearing at a never-before seen rate in human history. The stark threat hangs over all species ...
The Sixth Grand Extinction Will Be ‘Invisible’
Life on Earth has so far passed through five distinct crises that threatened to wipe it out, typically referred to ...
World’s most endangered wild cat embryos frozen and stored in hope of restoration
Iberian lynx mother and cub. The Iberian lynx is the only wild cat listed as critically endangered by the International Union for ...
Humans caused ancient Pacific bird extinction that killed 10% of world bird population
The Takahe is a flightless bird that was previously thought to be extinct in New Zealand until it was discovered ...
During the greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history the world’s oceans reached 40°C – lethally hot
Between 247 to 252 million years ago, Earth life was going through quite possibly its most dire time. During this ...
Eruption responsible for greatest mass extinction on land and sea
Paleontologists have found a link between cataclysmic volcanic eruptions around 252 million years and greatest mass extinction the Earth has ...
200 million years ago, half of all life on Earth went extint from a methane eruption
Around 200 million years ago, the Earth was still one big continent - the great Pangaea. Around that time came, ...
How to recover from a mass extinction
About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian, and event caused a mass extinction which killed over ...