A Texas representative wants to remove a rare lizard from the endangered species list, which would pave the way for oil and ...

However, clams took over the oceans in the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction, along with oysters, snails, and slugs. Earth’s largest mass extinction eliminated a lot of marine species. But it ...

About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extinction—the most extreme event of its kind in Earth's history. What followed was a ...

For millions of years after the end-Permian mass extinction, the same few marine survivor species show up as fossils all over the planet. A new study reveals what drove this global biological ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Most people think a meteor killed the dinosaurs - but that wasn’t Earth’s biggest extinction. The Permian-Triassic extinction ...

ALBUQUERQUE — The recovery of the smallest subspecies of gray wolf in North America is inching forward, an annual population ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

The end-Permian extinction, triggered by massive volcanic eruptions ... The extinction rate of plant species in this region was only 21%, far lower than the massive losses observed in the oceans, ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.