From ancient myths to modern science fiction, the idea of extinction has both fascinated and terrified us. Now, scientists ...

The Chicxulub meteorite impact, rather than volcanic activity, was the principal driver behind the extinction of the ...

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the ...

While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted.

We are researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event. Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present ...

At least two mass extinctions of life correlate with marked short-term changes in global temperature. One (Ordovician) was about 440 million years ago when temperatures dropped by 7 degrees in a ...

For years, Earth scientists have debated whether the intense volcanic activity in India, which occurred both before and after ...