Articles for tag: adaptive survival, ancient species, evolution, mass extinction, prehistoric survivors

Five Red Flags Scientists Track to Detect a Modern Mass Die-Off

Five Red Flags Scientists Track to Detect a Modern Mass Die-Off

The Earth has weathered five mass extinction events over the past 540 million years. Today, you’re witnessing something unprecedented in the geological record. Unlike previous die-offs caused by volcanic eruptions, asteroid impacts, or natural climate shifts, the current biodiversity crisis has a distinctly human fingerprint etched into every disappearing species. Scientists aren’t just sounding alarms ...

The Meteor That Made It Worse

How One Meteor Nearly Ended Life Millions of Years Before the Dinosaurs

Picture yourself standing on Earth’s surface roughly two hundred fifty-two million years ago, witnessing an apocalypse so devastating it makes the dinosaur extinction look like a minor blip. This was the Great Dying, a catastrophe that nearly erased life from our planet entirely, occurring long before T. rex ever roamed the Earth. While most people ...