Chemical clue helps explain Early Jurassic mass extinction
“This event, and events like it, are the best analogs we have in Earth’s past for what is to come in the next decades and centuries.”
Chemists, pharmacists could help save species from extinction
As a staggering number of animal and plant species face extinction, a study shows chemists and pharmacists belong on the front line of conservation efforts.
Chemists, pharmacists could help save species from extinction
As a staggering number of animal and plant species face extinction, a study shows chemists and pharmacists belong on the front line of conservation efforts.
Did ‘volcanic winters’ lead to dinosaur extinction?
Climate change triggered by massive volcanic eruptions, and not a meteorite plummeting to Earth, may have led to dinosaurs’ extinction.
How a favorite dinosaur food survived mass extinction
A few groups of palm-like plants that were a favored food of grazing dinosaurs still exist today. Now researchers have discovered how.
Volcanoes are to blame for mass extinction cycles
Massive volcanic eruptions over the past 260 million years caused lethal climate change that led to mass extinctions, researchers say.
Rate of climate-induced extinction is ‘shocking’
A study of a lizard species in Arizona revealed that nearly 70 years’ worth of climate-related extinction occurred in just seven years.
La Brea Tar Pits reveal clues to mysterious mass extinction
A study of the La Brea Tar Pits that reveals climate’s role in the extinction of large mammals and offers a warning for the future.
La Brea Tar Pits reveal clues to mysterious mass extinction
A study of the La Brea Tar Pits that reveals climate’s role in the extinction of large mammals and offers a warning for the future.
‘Near-perfect’ sabertooth cat skull is first sign they lived in Iowa
The discovery of an “exquisite” sabertooth cat skull offers clues about the iconic Ice Age species before its extinction.