We may be living through a sixth mass extinction—but scientists think some of the first five never happened

New AI-powered research questions whether a majority of Earth’s mass extinctions were as abrupt as previously believed.

Oklahoma crater may be 100 million years younger than thought, shifting it toward a mass extinction event

New uranium-lead dating of zircons from Oklahoma’s buried Ames impact structure points to a Late Devonian age near 370 million years, roughly 100 million years younger than its traditional Ordovician ...
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Study reshapes understanding of mass extinction in Late Devonian era

Diverse and full of sea life, the Earth's Devonian era—taking place more than 370 million years ago—saw the emergence of the first seed-bearing plants, which spread as large forests across the ...
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Mass Extinction May Have Been Caused By Near-Earth Supernova

The late Devonian extinction is one of the five major extinction events to have occurred on Earth. It's not unusual for scientists to argue over what causes a mass extinction event -- of the five, the ...
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Ancient reef-builders dodged extinction -- at least temporarily

Scientists discovered that ancient reef-building stromatoporoids survived the Late Devonian extinction, contrary to previous beliefs, and continued to thrive. The findings reveal how these organisms ...
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Three of the Earth’s five mass extinctions may not have been what we thought

Palaeontologists have used machine learningto organize the fossil record into potentially the most accurate timeline of Earth ...
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Supernovae Blamed For 2 Of Earth’s Mass Extinctions, The Devonian And Ordovician

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...
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Study reshapes understanding of mass extinction in Late Devonian era

A recently published study puts forth a new theory that volcanic eruptions combined with widespread ocean detoxification pushed Earth's biology to a tipping point in the Late Devonian era, triggering ...