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

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 ...

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

A strange world. The Permian began some 299 to 251 million years ago, when all the land on Earth had coalesced into a single, rabbit-shaped lump – the supercontinent Pangaea – surrounded by a ...

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 ...

Biomass reveals the real impact and energy flow of life in an ecosystem, like knowing not just the cast of a play, but who ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world deemed completely inhospitable to life, new research suggests.

The most profound mass extinction in Earth's history occurred 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, when a vast number of species were wiped off the surface of the planet. Among ...

During the Permian period, when most of Earth’s landmass was still bound up in the supercontinent Pangea, this part of what is now Brazil was covered in vascular plants like horsetails and ferns ...

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

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