For months I'd been on the trail of the greatest natural disaster in Earth's history. About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet ...

However, even the trilobites' evolution could not help the trilobites escape the Permian Period, where there was a mass extinction of animals on Earth. During the Permian Period, there was massive ...

Around 370 million years ago, Earth gradually descended into the ... It also paved the way for the rise of reptiles in the Permian period that followed. I lead an international team of scientists ...

The Triassic period stands out in Earth’s history as the time when dinosaurs ... The period of time before the Triassic was called the Permian. This was a time when a wide variety of animals ...

Around 370 million years ago, Earth gradually descended into the ... It also paved the way for the rise of reptiles in the Permian period that followed. I lead an international team of scientists ...

Dinosaurs evolved from more primitive reptiles in the aftermath of Earth's biggest mass-extinction event caused by extreme volcanism at the end of the Permian Period about 252 million years ago.

Life in the Triassic period had a rough start. In the Permian period before, the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history had just taken place. Despite the widespread devastation ...

Learn more about a time period marked by an intense burst of evolution. 3 min read The Cambrian period, part of the Paleozoic era, produced the most intense burst of evolution ever known.

During the Permian Period, rapid global warming led to a mass extinction that wiped out 90% of Earth's species, eerily paralleling today’s climate crisis. Ironically, the melting snow from ...