The molten rock was hot enough to melt the surrounding rocks and release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into Earth's ...

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

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

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

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.

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 ...

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.

An ordinary hike through the Italian Alps has unveiled an extraordinary discovery—a 280-million-year-old ecosystem frozen in ...

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

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.

Unfortunately, they too would see a grisly demise, as a mass extinction event – that may have been the result of climate change – wiped out around 90 percent of life on Earth.