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

Long before dinosaurs ever walked the Earth, a terrifying predator ruled the land – and it was unlike anything alive today. In this video, we journey back to the Permian period to meet Dimetrodon, a ...

The Permian period was one of the most extreme and unforgiving chapters in Earth’s history. In this video, we dive into the harsh realities of life during the Permian – from brutal climate swings and ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

The first archosauromorphs, some resembling modern reptiles and many times smaller than familiar dinosaurs, were previously believed to only survive in certain parts of the globe due to extreme heat ...

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and ...

“While what we’re going through now is a result of human behavior, the mechanisms of extinction are very similar to those that happened during the Permian period,” Pinheiro says. “We are ...

This article explores ten extinct plant species, from the ancient Araucarioxylon arizonicum to the more recent Sophora ...

The paleontologists who made the discovery also identified a previously unknown Lepidoptera species and have named it ...

If the cave art painting really captures a dicynodont, it predates formal paleontology. They've been extinct for about 250 ...