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 ...

Millions of years ago, catastrophic events wiped out most life on Earth—but some ancient animals managed to survive against ...

Speciation and extinction are fundamental processes that shape the diversity of life on Earth. Speciation refers to the formation of new and distinct species ... history is the Permian–Triassic ...

Several factors contributed to the survival of crocodiles, turtles, lizards and birds 66 million years ago, say our readers ...

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 ...

On the other hand, it raises the question of why none of the species that possessed these weapons survived far into ... combined with their owners’ extinction. It’s clear that anything that ...

Today we’re WONDERing about one of those: what was the Permian extinction? The Permian period was long before the age of dinosaurs—it started almost 300 million years ago. Animals called synapsids ...

Its lineage dates back over 290 million years to the Permian ... Paleogene extinction event wiped out the dinosaurs—and much of the flora and fauna alongside them. While many species succumbed ...

A group of scientists has found clues in blood groups that explain how modern humans managed to survive and expand from Africa to ... This may have been one of the reasons for their extinction.

The world's most threatened ape, the Tapanuli orangutan, is in greater danger of becoming extinct than previously thought due to deforestation, study finds. The rare primate species was only ...

Unfortunately, as detailed in the Center’s report Pollinators in Peril, 1 in 4 native bee species is at risk of extinction. Native bees face ... variety of ways that can make it harder for them to ...