In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: Lystrosaurus. Now, a stunning fossil discovery—an ancient egg containing a ...

Mass extinctions have radically influenced the history of life on Earth. Will we eventually succumb to such a catastrophe? Perhaps, but, in her new book Scatter, Adapt, and Remember, io9 editor in ...

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For more than 180 years, scientists have hypothesized that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs, but haven't found any fossils to prove it. Now, paleontologists finally have some tantalizing evidence to ...

Groundbreaking research indicates that hibernation-like behavior may be far older than previously thought. Fossils of Lystrosaurus, a pig-sized creature from 250 million years ago, show signs of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossil of a Lystrosaurus embryo - Julien Benoit Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever ...

Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs, with the discovery also shedding light on a remarkable survival story. The fossil, ...

The little skeleton was curled so tightly it looked as if it had never really entered the world. For years, that mattered because paleontologists suspected they were looking at something unusual, a ...