Scientists from Keele University have found strong evidence that some of Earth’s past mass extinctions could have been caused by nearby supernova explosions—massive star explosions in the Milky Way.
Thrips are tiny insects—their sizes range between 0.5mm and 15mm in length and many are shorter than 5mm. But the damage they ...
Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...
"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...
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The oldest echinoids come from the Late Ordovician Period and are approximately 450 million years ... Diversity increased progressively through the Palaeozoic, and in the Devonian forms started to ...
"This research suggests that this may have already happened." A fossil of a type of brachiopod, Floweria chemungensis, went extinct in the late Devonian period. Previous research has yet to determine ...