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2 days ago · The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, [a] also known as the K–T extinction, [b] was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth [2][3] approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
4 days ago · How El Nino and Mega Ocean Warming Caused the Greatest-Ever Mass Extinction. Sep. 12, 2024 — Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth...
1 day ago · Judging by naturalists’ sketches, sea minks — one of the largest mink species to ever live in North America — looked like an engorged water squirrel. Found near the Gulf of Maine and along the eastern Canadian coast, sea minks were heavily hunted by fur trappers and likely went extinct in the late 1800s or early 1900s.
2 days ago · It has been thought that megalodon became extinct around the end of the Pliocene, about 2.6 Mya; [21] [22] claims of Pleistocene megalodon teeth, younger than 2.6 million years old, are considered unreliable. [22] A 2019 assessment moves the extinction date back to earlier in the Pliocene, 3.6 Mya. [23]
1 day ago · The Tasmanian tiger – which was declared extinct in 1982 in Australia – has the shortest pregnancy with a gestation period of “just weeks”, according to Colossal Biosciences.
2 days ago · Homo tautavelensis. Homo erectus (/ ˌhoʊmoʊəˈrɛktəs / lit.' upright man') is an extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, with its earliest occurrence about 2 million years ago. [ 2 ] Its specimens are among the first recognizable members of the genus Homo.
2 days ago · Scientists have discovered the deep-frozen, mummified carcass of a young woolly rhinoceros in Siberia's ice that was feasted on by predators tens of thousands of years ago. The woolly rhino's ...
