New Permian species, Yinshanosaurus angustus, found in China.

In the end, over 90 per cent of marine life and 70 per cent of land animals were wiped out in the single worst extinction ...

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

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

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

Ever since the first fragments of pterosaur bone surfaced nearly 250 years ago , palaeontologists have puzzled over one ...

While the Permian has been well documented in places like North America, South Africa, China, and Russia, it hasn’t yet been comprehensively studied in South America.

This was the period just after the end-Permian mass extinction – Earth’s biggest mass extinction ... Fossils of the same species, from rocks of roughly the same age, have also been found in Brazil and ...

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

Earth has experienced several major extinctions, including the Permian-Triassic extinction around 252 million years ago, which wiped out about 90% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates.