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Island snails are vanishing as Pacific becomes ground zero for extinctions
Across the tropical Pacific, some of the planet’s most distinctive land snails are slipping out of existence, turning once ...
The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...
At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...
Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...
About 445 million years ago, Earth’s oceans turned into a danger zone. Glaciers spread across the supercontinent Gondwana, ...
Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...
One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.
Speciation and extinction are the twin engines that have sculpted the diversity of life on Earth. Speciation, the process by which new species arise from ancestral populations, is driven by a mixture ...
Contributed by Kea Giles, Managing Editor, GeologyBoulder, Colo., USA: Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's ...
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