A mass extinction event is a term used to describe a large-scale event that wipes out species. It is usually not a short, one-time incident but rather something that occurs over thousands or millions ...

Earth has experienced five mass extinctions throughout its history, with the most famous being the Chicxulub asteroid that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history. An analysis of the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Life on Earth is anything but predictable. For evidence, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even bivalves looked different during the time of the dinosaurs, as these fossils of an ultra-fortified oyster, left, and armored ...

Shortly after an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, life for non-avian dinosaurs ended, but the evolutionary story for the early ancestors of birds began. The fossil record tells us ...

couple of Brachiosaurus altithorax and a flock of Pterosaurs in a scenic Late Jurassic landscape© dottedhippo/iStock via Getty Images The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological ...

Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass extinctions have occurred, with five major mass extinctions being particularly ...