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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Around 252 million years ago, the end-Permian mass extinction eliminated over 80% of marine species, making it Earth’s most severe extinction event. Following this, a striking pattern emerged, with ...

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 ...