A total of 32 US states pump oil, but just over 42 percent of the country’s crude oil production comes out of Texas, ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Indeed, the earliest mammal we are currently aware of is the Brasilodon quadrangularis – a diminutive critter described as ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

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

A newly published review of 252-million-year-old fossils from southwest Germany is offering a deeper understanding of life’s ...

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