Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

After the end-Permian extinction, hardy ancestors of dinosaurs defied deadly tropical heat zones, migrating up to 10,000 miles and setting the stage for their future dominance. Credit: Shutterstock ...

The Earth is rapidly warming, and similar climate upheavals over 300 million years ago once triggered massive fluctuations in ...

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

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Lepidopteran scales identified in 236-million-year-old coprolites from Argentina provide the oldest physical evidence of butterflies or moths, extending their ...

I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

The Earth is rapidly warming — but did you know? Similar climate upheavals over 300 million years ago once triggered massive fluctuations in marine ...

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

Roughly 250 million years ago, life on Earth came dangerously close to ending. The end-Permian mass extinction wiped out around 90 percent of all species and triggered a slow and chaotic recovery. As ...

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 ...