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

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 ...

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

After the end-Permian extinction, hardy ancestors of dinosaurs defied deadly tropical heat zones, migrating up to 10,000 miles and setting the stage for their future dominance. Credit: Shutterstock ...

The Earth is rapidly warming, and similar climate upheavals over 300 million years ago once triggered massive fluctuations in ...

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 ...

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

I am hiking along the Metacomet Ridge in Greenfield, Massachusetts – a rather steep basaltic structure, modestly less than five hundred feet high and topped by a stately brick tower constructed in ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Lepidopteran scales identified in 236-million-year-old coprolites from Argentina provide the oldest physical evidence of butterflies or moths, extending their ...

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