Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...
Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of the Late Permian Period. Known as the Great Dying, this colossal extinction, ...
Credit: Wikimedia Commons These ancient arthropods were thriving hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs, and they kept their design through every mass extinction that followed. A hard shell, a ...
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Who would have thought that something as widely consumed today as the grape has its prehistoric roots in the time of the dinosaurs? In a groundbreaking discovery published in the journal Nature Plants ...
When the big asteroid hit Mexico 66 million years ago, it set off wildfires, tsunamis and massive clouds of dust that darkened the skies, killed much of Earth’s plant life and triggered a chain of ...