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A hidden asteroid crater under Oklahoma could be connected to one of Earth's major mass extinctions
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Mass Extinction
9 trends tracked about this subject — the full history, oldest to newest below.
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A Buried Oklahoma Crater Was Dated to the Wrong Era—and It Actually Lines Up With a Mass Extinction
New dating of the Ames Impact Crater in Oklahoma links the site to a violent mass extinction event from 372 million years ago.
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Feather Preserved in Dinosaur Dung Could Explain Why Birds Survived Mass Extinction
A fossilized feather preserved inside dinosaur dung may explain how certain birds survived a mass extinction.
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A fossil feather from the age of dinosaurs may explain why only some birds survived
A 66-million-year-old bird feather discovered inside fossilized dinosaur excrement may reveal why certain avian species survived the mass extinction.
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The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: ‘Bigger shocks are on the way’
Scientists warn that the world is inching toward catastrophic climate events, with reports suggesting that bigger shocks are on the way.
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Volcanoes Started Earth’s ‘Great Dying.’ This Unexpected Plant Made It Worse
New research reveals how ancient fern savannahs fueled millennia of wildfires during the End-Triassic mass extinction.
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Researchers just uncovered more about the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago
Researchers have identified a rare class of 'oddball' meteorite as the catalyst for the mass extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
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Around 252 million years ago, volcanoes across what is now Siberia erupted repeatedly for more than a million years, releasing perhaps 100,000 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and helping wipe out roughly 90 per cent of marine species in the deadliest mas
New research links Siberian volcanic fury 252 Myr ago to massive CO₂ release and the Permian marine die‑off, echoing today’s climate alarms.
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‘Life has always managed to crawl through’: docuseries takes us back to mass extinction events
NBC’s *Surviving Earth* docuseries premieres tonight, offering a prehistoric time-travel experience through mass extinctions