An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction or biotic crisis) is a widespread and rapid decrease in the biodiversity on Earth. Such an event is identified by a sharp change in the diversity ...

We’ve all been told that the largest extinction event on Earth was caused by a meteor, but what if that’s not the case? In ...

Some biologists conclude that humans owe our present dominance to a mass extinction -- the K/T event that saw the end of the dinosaurs and cleared the way for mammals to diversify into all the ...

Could the greatest extinction be related to the greatest volcanic eruptions? Renne, an expert at determining the ages of rocks, has been trying to work out the timing of the events. His lab is ...

A rumor circulated online in late 2024 claiming Elon Musk once pondered the future of humanity facing two options: an ...

"We haven't finished a mass extinction event, but the question is - might we be in one right now?" asks Dr Lees. "And we can't know that. It might take thousands of years for that entire ...

Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to be confined to one planet, until some eventual extinction event." A rumor circulated online in late 2024 claiming Elon Musk once ...

Earth is no stranger to mass extinction events – it’s had five so far, and some scientists have even claimed we’re in the ...

"If you go up to something a kilometre across, the effects would be global. Not a mass extinction, but civilisation as we know it would cease to exist. "If you go up to 10km, you are talking about ...

There will be a lot more. Loverro's firm, IVP, has been urging founders to "surgically pare down expenses" to stave off extinction, according to an internal presentation seen by Insider.

We are researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event. Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present ...