Scientists Raise New Theory on Mass Extinction of Life 250 Million Years...

Xinhua News Agency;  July 21, 2000 ;     445 words ...Chinese scientists have claimed that the mass extinction of living things some 250 million...finding answers to the mystery of mass extinction, scientists said. The U.S. magazine...natural sciences. The unprecedented mass extinction 250 million years ago has long perplexed...

Ecocide: a Short History of the Mass Extinction of Species.(Book Review)

Journal of Environmental Education;  June 22, 2004 ;     528 words ...Ecocide: A Short History of the Mass Extinction of Species, by Franz J. Broswimmer...the author calls this phenomenon of mass extinction ecocide. The main intent of this book...historical and sociological overview of the mass extinction of species in the early modern era...

Massive volcanism in India among factors behind mass extinction

The Hindustan Times;  October 27, 2006 ;     456 words ......all species in one of the largest mass extinction events in the history of life. It...impact alone could not have caused the mass extinction because this impact predates the mass extinction," Keller said, adding that Chicxulub...

Scientist Study Effects of CO2 On Mass Extinction

Sea Technology;  October 1, 2007 ;     262 words ...Before the worst mass extinction of life in Earth's history 252...species in the aftermath of the mass extinction set the stage for dinosaurs...a million years prior to the mass extinction. The Permian-Triassic extinction...

Experts warn of mass extinction of wildlife

New Straits Times;  April 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Straits Times 04-11-2004 Experts warn of mass extinction of wildlife Byline: Sarah Sabaratnam...activity is the prime cause of the latest mass extinction, according to scientists. The wholesale...entirely to human activity. "The next mass extinction is very unusual, as most ...

Deccan volcanic eruption behind mass extinction of dinos

The Hindustan Times;  October 31, 2007 ;     582 words ......main phase of the Deccan Traps to the mass extinction," said Princeton University palaeontologist...link between the eruption and the mass extinction came in the form of microscopic marine...evolved immediately after the mysterious mass extinction event. She said the same telltale...

Groups surviving mass extinction still go bust. ((Evolution's Death...

Science News;  June 15, 2002 ;     535 words ......the causes and casualties of these mass-extinction events (SN: 2/24/01, p. 116). Recently...up dead in the recovery phase of a mass extinction. His results, presented in the June...immediately before and after each mass extinction. Geologic stages last 5 to 10 million...

Rolling over the ocean. (mass extinction research)

The Economist (US);  November 16, 1991 ;     700+ words ...A MASS extinction is not that spectacular - at least...have discovered the cause of a mass extinction involving more prosaic animals...ocean dwellers, underwent their own mass extinction. The ocean bottoms were emptied...

China Exclusive: Human activity thought responsible for sixth mass...

Xinhua News Agency;  August 23, 2005 ;     511 words ......activity thought responsible for sixth mass extinction in history NANJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhua...degradation have ushered in the sixth mass extinction in the Earth's geological history...eruption, mankind is "directing" a mass extinction more serious than the ones triggered...

Mass Extinction Underway, Majority of Biologists Say

The Washington Post;  April 21, 1998 ;     345 words ......nation's biologists are convinced that a "mass extinction" of plants and animals is underway...biologists polled said they believed a "mass extinction" was underway, and an equal number...enough data to support the view that a mass extinction is occurring. Many of the estimates...

Mass origination versus mass extinction: The biological contribution to...

Journal of the Geological Society;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......The Pliensbachian-Toarcian bivalve mass extinction in the Andean Basin of South America...broadened to include the period following mass extinction, which is subdivided into a survival...approach to the Pliensbachian-Toarcian mass extinction as manifested in the Andean Basin...

One way to survive mass extinction.

Science News;  August 30, 1986 ;     227 words ...One way to survive mass extinction Common wisdom among paleontologists...northern climates survived the mass extinction between the Cretaceous and Tertiary...not refute the argument that mass extinction is blind to adaptation, but...

A mass-extinction mystery. (scientists are puzzled by two coinciding...

The Economist (US);  July 26, 1997 ;     465 words ......thousand. Unfortunately, this does not actually coincide with a mass extinction (the next one happened at the end of the Eocene epoch, some...exist at the time of an impact which determine whether a mass extinction follows a big collision. On such questions are grant proposals...

Extinction: equal opportunity in death. (body size, habitat or feeding...

Science News;  May 13, 1995 ;     273 words ......animals and plants. But many important groups weathered the mass extinction, including, thankfully, our own mammalian ancestors. Paleontologists...have smaller extinction rates during typical times. But the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous -- which many earth scientists...

Undersea volcanic activity 93 mln yrs ago triggered a mass extinction of...

The Hindustan Times;  July 17, 2008 ;     459 words ......the oceans of oxygen, triggering a mass extinction of marine life. According to a report...oxygen from the ocean and cause this mass extinction," he said. Scientists have long suspected...could be responsible for the marine mass extinction, an anoxic, or oxygen-depleting, event...