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Climate change 375 mn years ago may have lead to mass extinction

Last Updated: Monday, December 16, 2013, 16:22

Researchers have found proof for catastrophic oceanographic events linked with climate change and a mass extinction 375 million years ago that devastated tropical marine ecosystems.

Acidic rain may have led to mass extinction 250 mn yrs ago

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 26, 2013, 11:41

Researchers has revealed that rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice may have contributed to massive die-offs on land millions of years ago.

Link between Pangea integration and biggest mass extinction revealed

Last Updated: Monday, November 4, 2013, 14:41

A new study has revealed the mysterious relationship between Pangea integration and the biggest mass extinction that happened 250 million years ago.

How life recovered after mass extinction 262 mn years ago

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 12:11

A new research has studied how anomodonts responded after Permian mass extinction, about 252 million years ago.

Dinosaurs` lineage traced to Tanzania, Zambia

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 16:31

Newly discovered fossils from 10 million years after the mass extinction reveal a lineage of animals thought to have led to dinosaurs in Tanzania and Zambia.

Mass extinction in the Pacific due to humans

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 17:22

The arrival of human beings in the Pacific including New Zealand led to a rapid mass extinction of about 10 percent of the world`s bird species, a new study has revealed.

Lizards facing mass extinction from climate change: Study

Last Updated: Thursday, March 7, 2013, 16:00

Climate change could see dozens of lizard species becoming extinct within the next 50 years, a new research has warned.

Lack of food `not behind extinction of Saber-toothed cats`

Last Updated: Thursday, December 27, 2012, 19:31

Saber-toothed cats and American lions were not driven to extinction by lack of food, a new study has revealed.

Ups and downs of biodiversity after mass extinction unveiled

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 26, 2012, 09:45

Marine animal groups like ammonoids and conodonts already peaked three or four million years earlier, namely still during the Ear-ly Triassic, researchers say.

`Permian mass extinction triggered by microbe`

Last Updated: Sunday, December 16, 2012, 16:08

A humble microbe, instead of a devastating meteorite or a catastrophic volcanic eruption, wiped off over 90 percent of the species on Earth 251-million-years ago.

Earth took `10 mn yrs to recover from greatest mass extinction`

Last Updated: Monday, May 28, 2012, 21:29

It took almost 10 million years for Earth to recuperate from the greatest mass extinction of all time, according to a new research.

Habitat loss and tropical cooling could be behind mass extinction

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 16:54

The second-largest mass extinction in Earth’s history coincided with a short but intense ice age during which massive glaciers grew and sea levels plunged.