One of the five greatest mass extinctions took place on Earth about 201.6 million years ago, when three-quarters of all ...

These massive eruptions released vast amounts of sulfur dioxide, blocking sunlight and causing global cooling for a short ...

The End Triassic Extinction, one of Earth’s most significant mass extinctions, reshaped life on the planet 201.6 million ...

Severe cooling from volcanic sulfates - not warming - was the primary trigger of a mass extinction event 201.6 million years ...

For years, scientists have tied the end-Triassic extinction to a series of incredible volcanic eruptions in what’s known as ...

Volcanic eruptions caused sulfates to gush into the air and turned Earth into an icebox. Later, dinosaurs came into this ...

The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction, 201.6 million years ago, has been considered by some to have been a fairly slow-burn event, driven by rising temperatures and ocean acidification. A new study says it ...

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that massive volcanic eruptions 201.6 million ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

"It brings us into the realm of what humans can grasp," researcher Dennis Kent said. "These events happened in the span of a lifetime." ...

Amphibian fossils, particularly those capturing larval stages, are exceptionally rare due to tadpoles’ soft, delicate bodies, ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.