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 ...

More than 17,000 species are known to have survived until the mega-extinction that ended the Permian period 251 million years ago. A predator of the Cambrian was the giant, shrimplike Anomalocaris ...

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.

One member of this group was a large, sail-backed animal called dimetrodon, which looks like it could be a dinosaur but isn’t. Then 252 million years ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event.

life recovered during the Triassic period as new species arose and diversified quickly. This also marked the first time the earliest dinosaurs appeared. The Permian period’s mass extinction had ...

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 ...