After the end-Permian mass extinction, certain species thrived in warmer, oxygen-depleted waters, spreading globally. This ...
Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...
The Great Salt Plains is the only place in America where you can dig up unique hourglass-shaped selenite crystals. This ...
In recent weeks, hundreds of sea lions, dolphins and other animals have turned up in the sand dead or seriously ill, alarming rescuers and beachgoers alike. In recent weeks, hundreds of sea lions ...
Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...
A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...
If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...
"We've been seeing more toxin both in the organism itself and then also in the animals that are acquiring it," said Clarissa Anderson, director of the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing ...
Two Paleontology and Evolution students from the University of Bristol have undertaken the first ever study which describes ...