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234 million years ago, nature created a continuous rainfall that lasted for 2 million years. This event triggered the third mass extinction and the rise of the dinosaurs.
Scientists ran a supercomputer simulation that depicted a mass extinction on Earth in the year 2100.
Scientists have found a possible explanation for how a mass extinction occurred on a planet that NASA, ESA and many other space agencies believe must have life.
On Earth, the appearance of humans can be said to be an 'accident'. There were no humans on Earth in the first place. Humans only appeared after the mass extinction of d…
This 130,000 year period in human evolutionary history is considered a fossil error and no one can explain exactly what happened to humans during this time.
The sixth mass extinction has begun, and without drastic action, we risk losing millions of plant and animal species.
An asteroid with a diameter of 1,000 meters and weighing 100,000 tons colliding with Earth will lead to catastrophic consequences on a global scale.
The global mass extinction of animals is starting to take place and is worse than initially predicted, according to a recent study.
Geological and fossil evidence more than half a million years old has shown that the Earth itself may be the culprit of mass extinctions.
Unexpected events occurring in 2022 are a warning of an apocalypse that humans will face, of our own creation.
The continuous disasters that hit all continents are evidence, a terrible warning about the human race going to extinction due to climate change.
66 million years ago, a devastating catastrophe ended the era of dinosaurs and caused the mass extinction of these huge animals. As descendants of dinosaurs, why can bir…
About 445 million years ago, about 85% of the marine life on earth then disappeared after a geological event. This is considered a mass extinction in the Ordovician peri…
Experts analyze rock samples in Hudson Bay and find that the number of organisms on Earth has dropped sharply due to the change in oxygen.
In the history of Earth there have been many mass extinctions. And according to a recent study, at least two of them are caused by global warming.