is a tree species that has survived for over 270 million years. While not an animal, its endurance through major extinction events, including the late Devonian and the end-Permian, earns it a mention.

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

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 ...

Between climate change and the effects of humanity on the environment, many species have been harmed. Here are a few of them ...

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 ...

In the background, there are animals that have been impacted,” biologist and wildlife conservationist Jeff Corwin told TMZ. The California condor is a critically endangered species, with only ...

The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert ... A million years ago, researchers have found, an extinct species of human relatives known as Homo ...

Based on data gathered prior to Helene, the US Fish and Wildlife Service issued a Dec. 10, 2024, proposal to list the giant salamander as an endangered species ... young to survive and thrive ...

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 Permian explosion had the same input, plus the evolved Cambrian life forms that survived the Permian extinction events, including sharks, sting rays, reptiles and lung fish. This allowed a more ...