While the modern world has some big and scary creatures, the truth is that many of those animals are nothing compared to ...

A fossil from British Columbia, originally discovered in the 80s, has finally been identified as a new species named ...

and roamed the forests of the Carboniferous period 358-298 million years ago before dying out in the early Permian. But what would happen if there were no constraints on the size of animals ...

The Triassic period, from 252–201 million ... reptiles as the world rebuilt itself after the end-Permian mass extinction. "Altogether, animals on land and in the oceans were speeding up, using ...

Studying fossils from the Permian period provides scientists with valuable insights into the ancestral animals that ultimately evolved into the life forms we know today. Although the scientists ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, huge prehistoric animals roamed the planet until evolution eventually led to the emergence of new species. Arthropleura, the largest arthropod of the ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period ... ranging group of four-legged animals, with only mammals surviving ...

This occurred at the end of the Permian period and the start of the Triassic ... to uncover millions-old evidence of the largest animals to walk the Earth. In the United States fossils can ...

The Great Dying at the end of the Permian Period 250 million years ago may ... in the climate that killed off forests and many land animals, says Alexander Farnsworth at the University of Bristol ...

Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of ... and there weren’t many plants or animals that could do that.” A key reason the ...