New study supports the idea that an asteroid, rather than climate changes, caused the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Carbon dioxide is rising faster than any time in the past 66 million years. Rapid rises in the past have been linked to mass extinctions.
Why we won’t see a Planet of the Apes when humans are gone.
A cosmological event could have unleased the huge comet or asteroid that led to the demise of the dinosaurs.
A fall in vital trace elements in our oceans could be one of the driving forces behind a number of mass extinction events during Earth’s history.
When the asteroid struck the dinosaurs departed, leaving the planter
Being big – larger than a dog – increases the risk of being wiped out in a mass extinction.
With most species out of the way, remaining plants and animals rush to evolve into the ecological gaps.
Analysis of extinction rates over the past centuries shows that humans are causing the sixth mass extinction in the history of the Earth.
Even if humans survive the planet will never be the same again.
Humans have wiped out 13% of the world’s plants and animals species, according to a new study.
The largest meteorite impact site in the world may be right here in central Australia.
Every 30 mil years, Earth has to deal with more comet crashes from space and more intense geological activity from within. Dark matter may be the culprit in these episodes that can cause mass extinction.
The latest climate projections released last week by the Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO predict that Australia could potentially warm by between 2.8C and 5.1C by 2090. Meanwhile, the 2014 State of the…
Today, many zoos promote the protection of biodiversity as a significant part of their mission. As conservation “arks” for endangered species and, increasingly, as leaders in field conservation projects…
Scientists are coming to the conclusion that we are on the brink of a mass extinction — the sixth known in the history of the Earth, and the latest since an asteroid killed off the dinosaurs 65 million…
The worst time to be alive in Earth’s history is unarguably the end-Permian, about 250 million years ago. It is the period when the greatest-ever extinction event recorded took place, killing 97% of all…
The era in which humans have had the power to alter the conditions for all life on Earth is widely thought to have begun with the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. This era has been dubbed the “Anthropocene…
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Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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