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

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During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush ...

Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

A prehistoric carbon spike turned oceans deadly and wiped out marine life. Scientists say today’s CO₂ rise could cause the ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth was nearly lifeless, with nearly all life forms wiped out. This event, known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction, or the Great Dying, was the most catastrophic ...

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

By the end of the Permian, almost all life on Earth ceased to exist. Somewhere between 80 to 96% of animal groups went extinct. There was no single cataclysmic event that triggered the Great Dying.

The end of Permian mass extinction occurred 251.9 million years ago, marking the close of a geological period known as Permian. This extinction event is known as the greatest mass extinction recorded ...

The Mesozoic Era began with the Earth’s worst-ever extinction event. It is referred to as the Permian-Triassic extinction event because it spanned these geological Periods.

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 ...