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In a lecture in Rio, the director of the Center for Health and Human Performance at the University of London spoke about the ...

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

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

Invasive species are non-native species that have been introduced to an ecosystem and have established there causing ecological damage. The study of invasive species involves questions about the ...

No where was this more apparent than in the top producing region in Texas and the nation, the Permian Basin, a news release said. Key highlights from the analysis found: The Permian Basin reached ...

Some areas in the Permian have hit geological limits while others, yet to be drilled, are not expected to be as prolific as the prime Tier 1 acreage. Despite record U.S. crude oil production ...

The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred approximately 252 million years ago, wiped out over 80% of marine species, and its impact on land has long been debated. One prevailing theory suggests ...

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 ...