A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

The period of time before the Triassic was called the Permian. This was a time when a wide variety of animals lived, including a group of animals called the synapsids, which would later evolve ...

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 ... re working on the greatest murder mystery of all time," she said. Looy is one of many scientists trying ...

Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst ... to have survived until the mega-extinction that ended the Permian period 251 million years ago. A predator of the Cambrian was the ...

The Triassic Period was a time of great change. Bookended by extinctions ... began after Earth's worst-ever extinction event devastated life. The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the ...

Some areas in the Permian have hit geological limits while others, yet to be drilled, are not expected to be as prolific as ...

Changes over time in the fossil record served ... The earliest periods, in the Permian, were cold, while the first period of the Triassic—the Induan—had a disturbed climate which the ...

Read More: The Permian Extinction ... The scientists did detect SOME extinction in the area during that time period, but at 21 percent it was far lower than at much of the rest of the planet.

or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the ...