The crisis for marine animals would have started when ... where we've done so much to destroy an ecosystem. If life can survive the Permian extinction, it can survive anything.

certain animals found a way to beat the odds and survive. Here are four animals that managed to persist through Earth’s mass extinction events. Additionally, horseshoe crabs have a reproductive ...

The Permian extinction saw the loss of 80 to 96 percent of all marine species. In the Cretaceous event, perhaps 60 to 75 percent of marine species disappeared. What caused these immense die-offs?

The trilobites were such a well-adapted species that they were able to survive several ... help the trilobites escape the Permian Period, where there was a mass extinction of animals on Earth.

These events have led to the loss of a substantial number of species in a relatively short geological timeframe. The most notable of these is the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, which occurred ...

However, something survived the devastating ... Of the five mass extinctions, the Permian-Triassic is the only one that left large numbers of insect species extinct. The evolution was so severe ...

SILVER CITY, N.M.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the dunes sagebrush lizard may warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act and initiated a year-long status review.

(CN) — A rapid rise in CO2 emissions primarily released by the Siberian Traps volcanism drove the end-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago which obliterated 90% of all marine species and 70% ...

SILVER CITY, N.M.— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for again stalling in making a decision on whether to grant Endangered Species Act protections ...