I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

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 ...

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

In today's video, we will be exploring what the world was like before, during and after the Great Dying. We will be meeting key species that were lost, and that lived through the extinction event, and ...

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

The Earth is rapidly warming — but did you know? Similar climate upheavals over 300 million years ago once triggered massive fluctuations in marine ...

Inside that coprolite (a fossilized piece of dung) paleontologists have discovered the oldest physical evidence of Lepidoptera, the group that includes moths and butterflies. Microscopic scales, just ...

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

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 ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact periods in history when it happened are less well known. Was it a single ...

It is referred to as the Permian-Triassic extinction event because it spanned these geological Periods. You may also see it called the Great Dying. The significance of this event, which took place ...