Long-standing questions about the migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered, thanks to a rare and ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

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When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

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Euparkeria capensis, a small, 60 cm long reptile from the early Triassic periode (245 – 237 million years ago). Credit: Taenadoman, 2011 First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the ...

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and ...

Pterosaurs meanwhile appear to have been at first confined to the more humid conditions found in smaller areas of the ancient world, based on fossils found in modern day Italy and Austria, and ...

But by combining the fossils with reconstructed maps of the ancient world, in the context of evolutionary trees, we provide a way of overcoming these challenges." Story Source: ...

Life almost ended 252 million years ago. The end-Permian mass extinction wiped out 81% of marine life and over half of land-based species. But not everything perished. Among the survivors were the ...

“Our results suggest that these reptiles were much harderier to the extreme climate of the Pangaean tropical dead zone, able to endure these hellish conditions to reach the other side of the world. It ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world deemed completely inhospitable to life, new research suggests.