Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass ...
Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...
Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.
The Triassic–Jurassic transition represents one of Earth’s most profound episodes of biological upheaval, characterised by extensive volcanic activity, rapid climatic shifts and cascading ...
Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the Great Dying – this was the most catastrophic of the five mass extinction events ...
Contributed by Kea Giles, Managing Editor, GeologyBoulder, Colo., USA: Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's ...
The Jurassic Period is one of the three prehistoric geological periods of the Mesozoic Era. It spans from 145 million to 201 million years ago. This period was preceded by the Triassic Period and ...
The Palisades cliffs west of New York City rear up from the Hudson River like the spine of some ancient beast—and that impression is not far off. Their basalt backbone is a remnant of an immense lava ...
A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago. Reading time 3 minutes 252 million years ago, volcanic eruptions in ...