During the Permian-Triassic extinction, Inostrancevia, a saber-toothed predator, emerged as a dominant force. Fossils ...

Though the End-Permian mass extinction event is predicted to have killed off 80% of all life on Earth, new research is ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction eliminated almost 90 percent of all species. The devastating loss came after violent volcanic ...

Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of the Late Permian Period. Known as the Great Dying, this colossal extinction, ...

It’s quite remarkable that a class of animals that turn up their toes at a bit of pollution could survive the asteroid strike ...

Most Permian therapsid fossils ... in the aftermath of Olson’s Extinction, leading to the emergence of all major therapsid clades within a remarkably short period. This finding is particularly ...

Around 300 million years ago, long before dinosaurs ruled the Earth, the Carboniferous period teemed with strange and giant ...

Nobu Tamura/Wikimedia Commons The Triassic Period (252-201 million years ago) began after Earth's worst-ever extinction event devastated life. The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.