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Dinosaurs` lineage traced to Tanzania, Zambia

Newly discovered fossils from 10 million years after the mass extinction reveal a lineage of animals...

Mass extinction in the Pacific due to humans

The arrival of human beings in the Pacific including New Zealand led to a rapid mass extinction of a...

Lizards facing mass extinction from climate change: Study

Climate change could see dozens of lizard species becoming extinct within the next 50 years, a new r...

Lack of food `not behind extinction of Saber-toothed cats`

Saber-toothed cats and American lions were not driven to extinction by lack of food, a new study has...

Ups and downs of biodiversity after mass extinction unveiled

Marine animal groups like ammonoids and conodonts already peaked three or four million years earlier...

`Permian mass extinction triggered by microbe`

A humble microbe, instead of a devastating meteorite or a catastrophic volcanic eruption, wiped off ...

Earth took `10 mn yrs to recover from greatest mass extinction`

It took almost 10 million years for Earth to recuperate from the greatest mass extinction of all tim...

Habitat loss and tropical cooling could be behind mass extinction

The second-largest mass extinction in Earth’s history coincided with a short but intense ice age dur...

Explosive evolution need not follow mass extinctions

A new discovery has challenged the widely held assumption that a period of explosive evolution quick...

Permo-Triassic extinction wasn`t that bad

Terrestrial biodiversity recovered much faster after mass extinction, which occurred between the Per...

Reefs coped mass extinction earlier than Earth

Researchers had always assumed it took the Earth as long as five million years to recover from the s...

‘Earth burp’ led to mass extinction of marine life

A massive emission of methane led to an increase in atmospheric temperature around the globe 200 mil...

‘World`s sixth mass extinction may be underway’

Mankind may have unleashed the sixth known mass extinction in Earth`s history, according to a paper.

Has Earth`s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

Biologists estimate that within the past 500 mn years, at least 80 mammal species have gone extinct.

Wheels already turning on Earth’s sixth mass extinction

A scientific analysis of millions of years of data has suggested that if the course of human history...

Is another mass extinction of mammals on the way?

Thanks to global warming and ecological degradation, the 6th mass extinction is already on way, equa...

Global mass extinction 250mn yrs ago triggered fungus explosion

A new study has determined that the world’s worst mass extinction 250 million years ago was the trig...

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