New Permian species, Yinshanosaurus angustus, found in China.

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 ...

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

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.

They could also have been trying to escape from unpredictable rainfall and fluctuating daily temperatures. This was the period just after the end-Permian mass extinction – Earth’s biggest mass ...

A new fossil discovery suggests that reptiles lived together 20 million years earlier than previously thought.

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

eLife Assessment. This is a well-written important paper on the recovery of fauna and flora following the end-Permian extinction event in several continental sites in northern China. The convincing ...

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 ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ecosystem recovery driven by stable climate conditions. A new study has found that ...