The Current Mass Extinction Is Already Far More Dire Than We Realized

Learning about what happens to ecology, evolution, and biodiversity in times of mass extinction

Had a volcano-driven mass extinction not occurred at the end of the Triassic 201 million years ago, we likely would have had something closer to an Age of Crocodiles than the Age of Dinosaurs that actually followed. Dinosaurs were volutionary copycats of these long-lost look-alikes.

Tree Roots May Have Set Off a Mass Extinction