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

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million years ago, a new study found.

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

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million years ago, a new study found.

The fossil's story begins with the largest mass extinction event in Earth's known history, which occurred 250 million years ago at the end of the Permian era. The Permian mass extinction event, as ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period. These land-dwelling creatures would later evolve into mammals, but their ...

A tiny fragment of bumpy fossil found in a cave in Oklahoma is now the oldest known piece of preserved skin, paleontologists report Thursday in the journal Current Biology. The discovery allows ...

As an extinction crisis wiped out species at the end of the Permian Period, a predatory species emerged that dominated Southern Africa’s domain. By Jeanne Timmons Some 252 million years ago, it ...

Triassic reptiles took 10,000 mile trips through “hellish” conditions, study suggests First study to consider how ancient reptiles dispersed across the Earth after end-Permian mass extinction ...