Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of ...

The Permian extinction reminds him of Agatha ... Lystrosaurus, the synapsid that inherited the barren world of the Triassic, stared out empty-eyed. With its competition gone, Lystrosaurus spread ...

Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of ...

The idea that extreme heat could one day cause a mass extinction and end the dominance of humans is not as farfetched as it ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period.

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 ...

Nobu Tamura/Wikimedia Commons The Triassic Period (252-201 million years ago) began after Earth's worst-ever extinction event devastated life. The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the ...

If this increase continues at the same rate, we will reach the level of emissions that caused the Permian-Triassic mass extinction in around 2,700 years — a much faster timescale than the ...

The Mesozoic Era began with the Earth’s worst-ever extinction event. It is referred to as the Permian-Triassic extinction event because it spanned these geological Periods. You may also see it ...