An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified ...

Long before the dinosaurs, the Permian period was a brutal time to be alive. In this video, we explore the strange creatures, harsh environments, and the massive extinction event that made the Permian ...

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

Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the ...

(CNN) — A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period ...

A new study reveals that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or “Life oasis” for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological ...

The biggest mass extinction of all time happened 251 million years ago, at the Permian-Triassic boundary. Virtually all of life was wiped out, but the pattern of how life was killed off on land ...

Life flourished in the Permian period (298.9 million to 251.9 million years ago). The supercontinent Pangaea was ringed with lush forests where odd reptiles ranged alongside amphibians and ...

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the end-Permian mass extinction around 252 million years ago, according to new ...