For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a ...

While preparing to build a power substation next to a Utah residential subdivision, a prehistoric field of dinosaur and other ...

After the end-Permian mass extinction, certain species thrived in warmer, oxygen-depleted waters, spreading globally. This ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

Scientists racing the clock to finish excavating top southern Utah dinosaur fossil site before construction on a power ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

Fossils on the site, including the area slated for the substation, date back roughly 200 million years to the beginning of ...

252 million years ago, a mass extinction disrupted life on Earth. Yet, a region in China provided a haven for plants and animals, revealing unexpected resilience. This discovery, published in Science ...

New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...