Long before the dinosaurs, the Permian period was a brutal time to be alive. In this video, we explore the strange creatures, ...

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

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.

The Permian period, which ended in the largest mass extinction the Earth has ever known, began about 299 million years ago. The emerging supercontinent of Pangaea presented severe extremes of ...

The event has been attributed to intense global warming triggered by a period of volcanic activity in Siberia, known as the ...

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared.Authors Andrew Merdith DECRA Fellow, School of Earth Sciences, University of ...

This mass extinction almost ended life on Earth as we know it. ... About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species.

When most of us think about extinction, chances are we recall that infamous asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago – a.k.a., the K/T extinction event.

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million years ago, a new study found.

Evidence for this theory comes from the Siberian Traps in Russia, a vast field of lava flows left over from intense volcanic activity near the end of the Permian period. Altogether, the layers of ...

The end of the Permian period, around 252 million years ago, was a dire time for life on Earth. Scientists believe a series of violent volcanic eruptions occurred in what is today Siberia, pumping ...