A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

While the modern world has some big and scary creatures, the truth is that many of those animals are nothing compared to ...

The end of Permian mass extinction occurred 251.9 million years ago, marking the close of a geological period known as ...

(pensive music) During the Permian period, this reef extended hundreds ... Somewhere between 80 to 96% of animal groups went extinct. There was no single cataclysmic event that triggered the ...

Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones ... survived until the mega-extinction that ended the Permian period 251 million years ago. A predator of the Cambrian ...

Its lineage dates back about 260 million to 270 million years to the Late Permian period. The oldest fossils ... have their nests raided by vertebrate animals like skunks, and the CO2 response ...

One of them was Inostrancevia, a gruesome top predator that survived for a brief period amidst the turmoil. Daily Paleo ; Inostrancevia alexandriFrom Late Permian Russia, Inostrancevia is the ...

Amphibians have been with us since the Devonian period, about 370 million years ... It's not the profile you would expect of an animal that made it through the wall of heat, clouds of ash, and ...

About 252 million years ago at the end of the Permian Period, lava poured out during ... wiping out three-quarters of the plant and animal species when an asteroid hit the Gulf of Mexico just ...

Some of these animals are extinct now. A lot of reasons are behind the extinction of animals. Prehistoric battle between a Permian period reptile and giant dragonfly. Image by Andrew via DallE But ...

Towering above the Chihuahuan Desert in West Texas and southern New Mexico, the Guadalupe Mountains are part of one of the world’s best-preserved fossil reefs from the Permian Period. This hardened ...

Forest scene from Carboniferous period. Image by Andrew via DallE The Carboniferous period, spanning from approximately 358 to 298 million years ago, was a unique time in Earth’s history. It is often ...