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This illustration shows the percentage of marine animals that went extinct at the end of the Permian era by latitude, from the model (black line) and from the fossil record (blue dots). A greater percentage of marine animals survived in the tropics than at the poles. The color of the water shows the temperature change, with red being most severe warming and yellow less warming. At the top is the supercontinent Pangaea, with massive volcanic eruptions emitting carbon dioxide. The images below the line represent some of the 96 percent of marine species that died during the event. Includes fossil drawings by Ernst Haeckel/Wikimedia; Blue crab photo by Wendy Kaveney/Flickr; Atlantic cod photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld/Wikimedia; Chambered nautilus photo by ©2010 John White/CalPhotos. Credit: Justin Penn and Curtis Deutsch/University of Washington

Biggest mass extinction caused by global warming leaving ocean animals gasping...

December 8, 2018

A fossil tooth of a hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) (left) and a fossil tooth of a white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) (right) , two of the few surviving megaherbivores, from the Late Pleistocene of western Kenya (left).

Human ancestors not to blame for ancient mammal extinctions in Africa

November 27, 2018

Reconstruction of a living Mirarce eatoni perched on the horns of the ceratopsian dinosaur

Rare fossil bird deepens mystery of avian extinctions

November 14, 2018

An illustration of how the smaller mammals will have to evolve and diversify over the next 3-5 million years to make up for the loss of the large mammals.

Mammals cannot evolve fast enough to escape current extinction crisis

October 17, 2018

The walking dead: Fossils on the move can distort patterns of...

September 16, 2018

sample of mantle xenolith, rock sections of the lithosphere that get captured by the passing magma and erupted to the surface during the volcanic explosion.

Geologists uncover new clues about largest mass extinction ever

August 28, 2018

Ediacaran carbonate rocks in Three Gorges area, Hubei Province

What caused the mass extinction of Earth’s first animals?

June 30, 2018

Female (top) and male (below) of the ostracod Cypideis salebrosa.

Scientists Understand the Role of Sexual Selection in Extinction

April 11, 2018

When it comes to extinction, body size matters

February 16, 2018

Rainforest collapse 307 million years ago impacted the evolution of early...

February 8, 2018

learcut logging in the Pacific Northwest

Past mass extinctions could help scientists prevent the next one

November 11, 2017

Mammals switched to daytime activity after dinosaur extinction

November 7, 2017

Research provides unique insight into extinction dynamics in late Triassic

November 1, 2017

Lost mountains in the Karoo reveal the secrets of massive extinction...

October 19, 2017

Mass extinctions led to low species diversity, dinosaur rule

October 11, 2017

Siberian volcanic eruptions caused extinction 250 million years ago

October 3, 2017

Understanding Caribbean mammal extinctions of the past spurs renewed focus on...

August 23, 2017

Extinction mystery solved? Evidence suggests humans played a role in monkey’s...

August 9, 2017

What caused the world’s greatest extinction?

July 31, 2017

New bird that humans drove to extinction discovered in Azores

July 26, 2017

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