Articles for tag: ClimateChange, conservation, MassExtinction, Paleontology, Permian

Fossils Across Time: Inostrancevia’s Journey from Russia to South Africa Reveals a Prehistoric Crisis

Jan Otte

Far out in the dry badlands of South Africa’s Karoo Basin, fossils have been unearthed by paleontologists that rewrite the book on prehistoric survival and extinction. The fossils are those of Inostrancevia, a giant saber-toothed predator known to science only through Russian fossils until now. The tiger-sized gorgonopsian proto-mammal with reptilian traits somehow traveled an ...

Down to Earth: The Silent Shift of Mammals Before the Dino Extinction

Suhail Ahmed

New research reveals mammals were abandoning trees millions of years before the asteroid hit changing everything we know about their survival. The Great Mammal Migration: From Trees to Terrain For decades, scientists believed mammals only flourished after dinosaurs went extinct. But a groundbreaking 2025 study analyzing fragmentary limb bones from Late Cretaceous mammals reveals a ...