Far out in the dry badlands of South Africa’s Karoo Basin, fossils have been unearthed by paleontologists that rewrite the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mass extinction that killed 80% of life on ... Yang and his colleagues found that during the late Permian and early Triassic, the climate became a bit drier in what is now Xinjiang — but ...

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 ...