Around 370 million years ago, Earth gradually descended into the longest lived and probably the most intense ice age ...

Scientists have unearthed a remarkable fossil of a gorgonopsian, a saber-toothed predator they believe to be the oldest ever discovered.

Dr Hana Jurikova, the lead researcher from St Andrews, said: “The end of the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age was a turning point in ...

RESEARCHERS from the University of St Andrews have studied how carbon dioxide (CO2) affected Earth's climate millions of ...

A team from the University of St Andrews used fossils to work out how much CO2 changed during the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age, ...

The Triassic is a tale of two histories. One is its natural history, begun after the Great Permian Dying, 252m years ago, when, as happens from time to time, plate tectonics brought Earth’s continents ...

Surprisingly, Earth’s creatures were highly diverse during the Carboniferous and Permian Eras (the time before dinosaurs) and also enormous. Unearth the nine massive prehistoric animals that ...

Delaware Museum of Nature: 'Life Before the Dinosaurs,' near Greenville Guests will travel back in time 300 million years ago to a time when creatures dominated the sea and land in "Permian ...

The prehistoric creature is thought to have lived around 280-270 million years ago and was likely a "top predator" in its day ...

The origin of mammals is shrouded in mystery, but every fossil clue helps rewrite the story. A new discovery on a Mediterranean island is challenging what we know about when—and where—mammal ancestors ...

Scientists see evidence for at least five major episodes that eradicated creatures great and small ... time—and the most -lethal of them, the Permian-Triassic extinction around 252 million ...