In today’s fast-changing world, where species are constantly evolving and many are disappearing, it’s fascinating to learn ...

It’s quite remarkable that a class of animals that turn up their toes at a bit of pollution could survive the asteroid strike ...

Though the End-Permian mass extinction event is predicted to have killed off 80% of all life on Earth, new research is ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

I’ve seen firsthand how devastating Alzheimer’s can be — not just for the individuals living with it but also for their loved ...

This World Penguin Day, (25 April), conservation charity WWF is warning that Emperor penguin populations risk rapid and dramatic decline due to habitat loss – driven by climate change. Ahead of the ...

WEST ALTON, Mo. — A fish that once thrived for 150 million years was driven to the "brink of extinction." It's undergoing a slow, but sure, comeback. "Lake sturgeon were declared endangered in ...

A lot of reasons are behind the extinction of animals. Prehistoric battle between a Permian period reptile and giant dragonfly ... It had fur coatings as an adaptation from living during the ice age.

Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of the Late Permian Period. Known as the Great Dying, this colossal extinction, ...

pensilis—from high dominance to near-extinction—indicating a sudden anthropogenic disturbance. Burn marks on the tops of standing stumps of G. pensilis are consistent with fire attacks by the ...

The findings could help explain the extinction of these great beasts as climate change made their home ranges unviable. Some Protemnodon species survived in Australia until 50,000 years ago.

It has said it will decide this week about the first subset of the plan, which covers three east-to-west superhighways to the Permian Basin area of West Texas. The Permian-only updates would ...