It was a time of significant changes for life on Earth, including the extinction of ... called Pangaea that had already ...

Could aquatic mammals, such as whales, orcas, and bottlenose dolphins, ever evolve to live on land again? It seems the ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

and how can they help predict the future of life on Earth? Petrified Forest National Park is one of the most complete records of the end Triassic in the world. It is a really interesting area to ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period.

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and the ability to birth live young ...

Most people think a meteor killed the dinosaurs - but that wasn’t Earth’s biggest extinction. The Permian-Triassic extinction event wiped out over 90% of marine life and 70% of land species. It was ...

The NASA satellite image shows rust-red rock formations in Wyoming—evidence of 220-million-year-old 'megamonsoons'.

Her current focus is on trending life stories and human-interest features ... The image, captured by the Landsat 9 satellite's Operational Land Imager-2 in June 2024, shows deep red rock ...

“What makes this site so important is that we are looking at an area where, just a few hundred thousand years after that Triassic extinction event, life was already thriving.” Jim ...