Mass extinction event 260 million years ago resulted from climate change, studies say Ocean stagnation, ecosystem collapses, ... about 300 miles west of Hong Kong.

Earth has already faced five mass extinctions—and scientists say the sixth has begun. Species are vanishing, climates are ...

The Earth is rapidly warming, and similar climate upheavals over 300 million years ago once triggered massive fluctuations in ...

The fossil record of mass extinctions older than 300 million years is a bit sketchy, as life existed only in the sea at the time. The end-Ordovician mass extinction correlates with the Suordakh ...

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By using high-resolution fossil data and advanced computing tools, the scientists revealed that over 300 million years ago, ...

New research from the University of California, Davis, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Texas A&M University reveals that ...

The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth's oceans during the Devonian Period over 300 million years ago, according to a study led by ...

The site of a meteor strike is 300 miles from the discovery of a reef of fossilized fish. ... During all five of the major mass extinctions in Earth’s past, reef organisms were devastated.

Before the Late Devonian mass extinction, ... Left on fields, both types of fertilizer emit nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas with some 300 times the climate impact of carbon dioxide.

Around 300 tree species grow in 125 acres of old-growth forest at Barro Colorado Island, Panama. (Photo by Christian Ziegler) (CN) — Protecting biodiversity in even just a tiny percentage of the Earth ...

The period between 300 and 200 million years ago is a very interesting time to see how ... How reptiles survived this mass extinction event was the looming question that Simões and his team at ...