A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, or "The Great Dying," this cataclysm wiped out over 80% of marine ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet's biggest mass extinction while most animals did not. About 252 million years ago, 96% of marine ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research. The Permian–Triassic ...

For the first 280 million years of animal life on Earth, slow-living creatures such as clam-like brachiopods and crinoid sea lilies dominated seafloor ecosystems. Then, suddenly, things changed. The ...

The Permian–Triassic mass extinction, the most severe biodiversity crisis of the Phanerozoic, is widely linked to Siberian Traps volcanism, yet mercury (Hg) isotope responses to eruptive phases remain ...

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a group of primitive plants to survive. Research led by the University of Leeds ...

Learn how Triassic marine amphibian fossils from the Kimberley region in Australia reveal rapid global dispersal after the end-Permian mass extinction. Less than a million years after Earth’s worst ...

A new Stanford-led study offers the clearest picture yet of how some ocean life survived our planet’s biggest mass extinction while most animals did not. About 252 million years ago, 96% of marine ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world deemed completely inhospitable to life, new research suggests. In a paper ...