In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

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

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

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

New funding in Norman could help scientists understand how to preserve biodiversity in a world that has alarming similarities to one mass extinction in particular. David Wright, a paleontologist ...

Despite Earth's most devastating mass extinction wiping out over 80% of marine life and half of land species, a group of early reptiles called archosauromorphs not only survived but thrived, venturing ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world deemed completely inhospitable to life, new research suggests.

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

The Permian like all US shale oil production is done. It peaked in 2023 and has been in decline since. How could a basin like the Permian peak at 7.7 million barrels a day (mbd) in 2035 when it ...

Well, individual trace-makers can produce different traces, and different organisms can make morphologically similar traces. In consideration of this, ... Guo, W., et al. 2022. Late Permian–Middle ...