Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on Earth.

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

Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.

Around 252 million years ago, Earth was nearly lifeless, with nearly all life forms wiped out. This event, known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction, or the Great Dying, was the most catastrophic ...

Researchers detect some unique features in two specimens belonging to Pareiasauria, leading to the discovery of a new species ...

Alliance Resource Partners leverages low-cost Illinois Basin coal production and diversification into royalties, offering a ...

A billionaire and capital investment savant, Texas Tech booster Cody Campbell has a plan to save college sports from itself.

Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly ...

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