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History is riddled with massive die-offs. At times, 96% of Earth's species disappeared. Here's a look at the worst extinction events and what caused them.
One in six species on the planet will face extinction due to the effects of climate change, according to a US study.
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An increased likelihood of life-threatening comet impacts could occur when the Sun passes through a possible dark matter disk in the Galaxy.
Studies of bones from Ice Age megafaunal animals across Eurasia and the Americas have revealed that major increases in environmental moisture occurred just before many species suddenly became extinct around 11-15,000 years ago. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
Plants survive better through mass extinctions than animals | WFS
Most complete North American fossil of a bird, now extinct, that was the aerodynamic equal of the ancestors of modern birds
Six tales of extinctions, and what collections can tell us about life on our planet. Six researchers share 60-second stories about organisms that may be gone...
Global warming may cause more extinctions than predicted if scientists fail to account for interactions among species in their models, researchers argue in a new article.
By wiping out massive plant-eaters like giant ground sloths, humans inadvertently deprived modern ecosystems of essential nutrients
Tomb goods and historical texts show how a drying climate and an expanding human population took their toll on the region’s wildlife
A new study of critically endangered birds finds a “wave of extinctions washing over the continents.”...
A new study suggests that tiny animals may become the norm for millions of years after a big extinction.
Permian-Triassic beds at the Meishan section in South China Life on land and in the sea was nearly eradicated about 252 million year...
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Sulfur emissions from years-long lava eruptions, one of the proposed causes of massive die-offs in earth's history, may have had less grim consequences than once thought
