Most people think a meteor killed the dinosaurs - but that wasn’t Earth’s biggest extinction. The Permian-Triassic extinction event wiped out over 90% of marine life and 70% of land species. It was ...

The Permian period immediately predated the dinosaurs. Ronchi said he was also “surprised by the abundance and preservation” of the fossils when he first saw the images. “It is the first ...

The climate was hot and dinosaurs flourished after the Permian, or Permian-Triassic, extinction (also known as the "Great Dying") eliminated nearly all marine and terrestrial life. This occurred ...

Unfortunately, the uppermost (youngest) rock layers in the Grand Canyon date back to the Permian period, before the time of the dinosaurs, meaning there are no dinosaur fossils preserved in the area.

This plant comes from the Permian Period, around 275 million years ago, the last period before the age of dinosaurs. Plants such as this were used as evidence that continents were once connected ...

Dinosaurs evolved from more primitive reptiles in the aftermath of Earth's biggest mass-extinction event caused by extreme volcanism at the end of the Permian Period about 252 million years ago.

Long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, another giant predator claimed the top spot in its environment. Meet Gaiasia, a huge salamander-like creature that stalked the Permian swamps. In case you ...

They were the only group of dinosaurs to survive the Cretaceous mass extinction around 65 million years ago (not to be confused with the Permian-Triassic mass extinction that happened some 250 ...

The creature existed some 40 million years before dinosaurs evolved ... to piece together how the world was evolving during the Permian period. "The fact that we found Gaiasia in the far south ...