Long before the dinosaurs, the Permian period was a brutal time to be alive. In this video, we explore the strange creatures, ...

New Permian species, Yinshanosaurus angustus, found in China.

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

The event has been attributed to intense global warming triggered by a period of volcanic activity in Siberia, known as the ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared.Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the Great ...

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared.Authors Andrew Merdith DECRA Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of ...

A strange world. The Permian began some 299 to 251 million years ago, when all the land on Earth had coalesced into a single, rabbit-shaped lump – the supercontinent Pangaea – surrounded by a ...

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...