A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

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A fossilized skull of a massive amphibian has been discovered in a Texas quarry, and its appearance has sparked comparisons ...

Alongside providing an overview of the company’s recently proposed trio of US renewables projects, this article discusses ...

An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...

In the end, over 90 per cent of marine life and 70 per cent of land animals were wiped out in the single worst extinction ...

New fossil evidence has revealed that the collapse of tropical forests during the Earth’s most devastating extinction event ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly complete skull of an enormous ancient salamander-like creature in a quarry ...