Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...
A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s ...
An artistic rendering of an evening approximately 252 million years ago during the late Permian in the Luangwa Basin of Zambia. The scene includes several saber-toothed gorgonopsians and beaked ...
The Permian period, stretching from around 299 to 252 million years ago, was a time of extraordinary ecological richness, a time when early forests blanketed the Earth and many reptile-like and ...
Guryul ravine in Kashmir preserves the world's clearest geological record of the "Great Dying", Earth's most devastating mass ...
Almost all life on land and in the ocean was wiped out during "The Great Dying," a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests that the Great ...
Remains of a new dicynodont species dating back over 250 million years link China and South Africa, suggesting passage of ...
The West Texas desert has a surprising feature: a prehistoric ocean reef. There is a surprising natural wonder in the middle of the vast West Texas desert: a prehistoric ocean reef built from the ...
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Since the beginning of time, Earth has created life and then wiped out most of it in catastrophic, ultra-destructive moments. Starting with the very first extinction event since multicellular life ...
A dense Arctic bonebed shows marine life and ocean food webs recovered far faster than scientists once believed after mass ...
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