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

The Permian Period is known as one of the periods of mass extinction, given that 90% of the animals on Earth died during this ...

By the end of the Permian, almost all life on Earth ceased to exist. Somewhere between 80 to 96% of animal groups went extinct. There was no single cataclysmic event that triggered the Great Dying.

Almost 300 million years ago, the world was ruled by monsters — Permian Monsters, that is. Permian Monsters include mammalian ancestors that predate dinosaurs, but were almost completely wiped ...

More than 99 percent of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth are extinct. As new species evolve to fit ever changing ecological niches, older species fade away. But the rate of extinction ...

Commentary. Sometimes, a television show comes along just exactly when you need it. It’s not that the British series “All Creatures Great and Small,” the latest adaptation of James Herriot ...