ancient, biosphere, die-off, mass extinction, new discoveries, prehistory

Stanford-Led Research Shows Huge Die-Off in Ancient Biosphere

Clues from Canadian rocks formed billions of years ago reveal a previously unknown loss of life even greater than that of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The Earth lost nearly three-quarters of its plant and animal species in a huge die-off in the ancient biosphere. Rather than prowling animals, this ...

Troy Oakes

A mass extinction killed most life on Earth.