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

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 ...

The reptile-like animals of the Permian Period were replaced by a group of reptiles called the archosaurs, which helped give rise to dinosaurs, according to the museum.

The ancient skin sample, no bigger than a human fingernail, dates back about 289 million years to the early days of the Permian period, when Earth’s continents were joined into a single ...

Find the answers to all your dinosaur questions here. Yes, travel back in time with us to the Age of Dinosaurs. Or stay where you are, and watch this collection of documentaries to learn about the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers studying ancient sea bed burrows and trails have discovered that bottom burrowing animals were among the first to bounce back after the end-Permian mass extinction.

Life Sea life recovered from Permian mass extinction faster than we thought. A diverse set of fossils from China shows that a complex marine ecosystem existed 251 million years ago, shortly after ...