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A new discovery has challenged the widely held assumption that a period of explosive evolution quickly follows for survivors of mass extinctions.
Last Updated: Tuesday, October 11, 2011, 21:03
Terrestrial biodiversity recovered much faster after mass extinction, which occurred between the Permian and Triassic periods, than previously thought.
Last Updated: Sunday, October 2, 2011, 19:37
Researchers had always assumed it took the Earth as long as five million years to recover from the species collapse.
Last Updated: Friday, July 22, 2011, 15:56
A massive emission of methane led to an increase in atmospheric temperature around the globe 200 million years ago.
Last Updated: Saturday, March 5, 2011, 22:40
Mankind may have unleashed the sixth known mass extinction in Earth`s history, according to a paper.
Last Updated: Thursday, March 3, 2011, 16:38
Biologists estimate that within the past 500 mn years, at least 80 mammal species have gone extinct.
Last Updated: Monday, December 28, 2009, 12:59
A scientific analysis of millions of years of data has suggested that if the course of human history is any model, then the wheels are already turning on Earth’s sixth mass extinction.
Last Updated: Saturday, December 19, 2009, 17:23
Thanks to global warming and ecological degradation, the 6th mass extinction is already on way, equal to the "big five" that occurred over the past 450mn years.
Last Updated: Monday, October 5, 2009, 12:01
A new study has determined that the world’s worst mass extinction 250 million years ago was the trigger for a fungus explosion, which puts to rest the idea that an asteroid impact may have had a hand in the massive destruction.
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