An environmental group instrumental in winning an endangered species listing for a struggling lizard species in the Permian ...

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species. Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived. On land ...

A lawsuit over the fate of the dunes sagebrush lizard got a bit more complicated this week as the Center for Biological Diversity filed a request with the United States District Court, Western ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Permian mass extinction, 252 million years ago, was linked to a 10°C rise in global temperatures due to massive volcanic CO 2 emissions. This led to climate ...

The lizards are native to a small portion of the Permian Basin and have lost more than 95% of ... In 2002 the Center submitted a scientific petition to place the lizard on the endangered species list.

“The temnospondyls showed the same range of body sizes as in the Permian, some of them small and feeding on insects, and others larger. These larger forms included long-snouted animals that trapped ...