A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst ...

Chemical clues in fossilized pollen grains suggest the world’s greatest mass extinction was a sunny affair, according to a new analysis (Sci. Adv. 2023, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo6102). As the Permian ...

(CNN) — A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the ...

As an extinction crisis wiped out species at the end of the Permian Period, a predatory species emerged that dominated Southern Africa’s domain. By Jeanne Timmons Some 252 million years ago, it was a ...

A new study uncovers hidden chemical clues showing that fire played a bigger role in the Early Triassic than scientists once thought.

The fossil shouldn’t have been there. The original bones of the black bear-size sabertooth predator, Inostrancevia, were found in northern Russia, encased in rocks more than 253 million years old. Yet ...

Two hundred and fifty million years ago, ninety percent of marine species disappeared and life on land suffered greatly during the world’s largest mass extinction. The cause of this great dying has ...

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In a groundbreaking study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, an international team of paleontologists has uncovered a rich treasure trove of Permian fossils from southern Africa.

The biggest mass extinction of all time happened 251 million years ago, at the Permian-Triassic boundary. Virtually all of life was wiped out, but the pattern of how life was killed off on land has ...