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

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 ...

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 forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world ...

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

“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 ...

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

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 ...

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