As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

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

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

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Dinosaurs are not the only predators that have walked the Earth. Nearly 252 million years ago, when Earth witnessed the "Great Dying" mass extinction, a beast continued to survive and thrive during ...

Smaller land animals that ate plants and other animals survived as scavengers of decaying plants, roots, dead dinosaurs, and fungi. These were birds, lizards, mammals, or archelon turtles.

Abstract The greatest mass extinction at the end of the Permian, ca. 252 million years ago, led to a tropical dead zone on land and sea. The speed of recovery of life has been debated, whether fast or ...

The end of Permian mass extinction occurred 251.9 million years ago, marking the close of a geological period known as Permian. This extinction event is known as the greatest mass extinction recorded ...

At some point around 350 million to 400 million years ago, during the Permian-Triassic boundary, several lineages of fish dragged themselves out of the water and onto land for the first time.

Paxton sued the Fish and Wildlife Service in September 2024, arguing the land restrictions needed to restore the species could come at the expense of one of the area’s most lucrative industries.

The Permian-Triassic mass extinction was caused by volcanic eruptions in what is now the Siberian Traps, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over a million ...