Life on Earth is anything but predictable. For evidence, look no further than the five mass extinctions that have occurred over the past 500 million years: Even in the midst of widespread ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species—according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out ...

Now standing at 5.7 billion and growing at a rate of 1. ... in the face of the current mass extinction. But thousands of others, many never known to science, are likely to perish.

Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas ... to identify the killer responsible for the largest of the many mass extinctions that have struck the planet. The most famous die-off ...

The four previous mass extinctions were also thought to have involved climatic changes—due to large-scale volcanic eruptions, for example—and in one case obliterated all but 5 percent of species. (See ...

But many brave creatures bounced back from the brink of extinction due to well-coordinated conservation efforts Unique blue iguana faced near extinction by 2002. But in 2018, they were rebounded ...

Of all the species that have ever existed on Earth, 99% of them are gone. Most of those were wiped out during what are known as "Mass Extinction Events". Since life emerged on our planet, there have ...

Lucas Atwell CC BY-SA 3.0 Everyone knows about the mass extinction that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. About 66 million years ago, a seven-mile-wide asteroid slammed into our planet and began a mass ...

Nature Ecology and Evolution 5 (8): 1145–52. Cardeñosa ... "The Misunderstood Sixth Mass Extinction." Science 360 (6393): 1080–81. Ceballos, Gerardo, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Peter H. Raven. 2020.

The current mass extinction differs from all others in being driven by a ... 4 billion in 1975, and over 7.5 billion today. If the current course is not altered, we’ll reach 8 billion by 2020 and 9 to ...