Despite Earth's most devastating mass extinction wiping out over 80% of marine life and half of land species, a group of ...

One of these predators was Inostrancevia, a terrifying saber-toothed creature described as a proto-mammal that's older than the dinosaurs. For years, paleontologists believed it l ...

The Permian extinction reminds him of Agatha ... at the Smithsonian and wandered into the dinosaur hall. Behind the dinosaurs was a case with skulls of Permian synapsids. They don't get many ...

Learn more about archosauromorphs, the early relatives of dinosaurs, that survived inhospitable terrain during the Triassic ...

but its lofty position wasn’t enough to save it from Permian Extinction that paved the way for a biodiversity boom come the Triassic – a time otherwise known as the rise of the dinosaurs.

290 million years, before the age of dinosaurs, these peculiar creatures ... For example, it’s widely believed that the Permian-Triassic extinction was driven by runaway global warming.

setting the stage for dinosaurs to appear and rule the planet until their own extinction 66 million years ago. But the Permian mass extinction event didn’t occur overnight. Instead, it unfurled ...

Discover the migration routes of ancient reptiles and how they thrived in a nearly lifeless environment after the mass ...

which includes the dinosaurs, came to dominate.' The cause of the Permian-Triassic extinction event is not fully understood. Various theories have been proposed, such as an unknown asteroid impact, ...

According to new research, the insects may have been around 247 million years, older than the earliest dinosaurs. In a new study published March 10 in the journal Papers in Paleontology ...

Dr. Kammerer also sees the discovery as an opportunity to take another look at the Permian-Triassic Extinction, which is often overlooked in favor of the era of the dinosaurs that followed.