Lava flows down a hill under an evening sky. The Permian-Triassic mass extinction was caused by volcanic eruptions in what is now the Siberian Traps, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon ...

For years, several scientific reports have suggested that Earth may be entering another mass extinction event. These predictions often rely on extending extinction patterns from the past 500 years ...

Extinction rates appear to have slowed since their peak in the early 1900s, suggesting not a reprieve for nature but a shift in how and where losses occur. Much of the damage was concentrated on ...

Extinction rates are not spiraling upward as many believe, according to a large-scale study analyzing 500 years of data. Researchers found that species losses peaked about a century ago and have ...

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Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

We may not be living through Earth’s sixth mass extinction event ­­— at least not yet. That’s the conclusion of a new analysis of plant and animal extinctions published September 4 in PLOS Biology.

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 ...

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"Dire wolves" created by Colossal Biosciences were pegged as "the first animals in history to be brought back from extinction." But that all depends on your definition of de-extinction — and ...

Najin and Fatu, the two remaining northern white rhinos, on March 20, 2018 at the ol-Pejeta conservancy in Nanyuki, Kenya. Najin and Fatu, the two remaining northern white rhinos, on March 20, 2018 at ...

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