In a groundbreaking study, new fossil evidence has shed light on the mysterious 5-million-year heatwave that followed Earth’s ...

Although separated by hundreds of millions of years and entirely different triggers, the Great Dying and today’s Sixth Mass ...

After Earth’s greatest extinction, it wasn’t just volcanic fury that kept the planet hot; it was the death of tropical ...

The end-Permian mass extinction — the most severe mass extinction ever — peaked 252.28 million years ago, reports a new study published Thursday in Science.

These animals were three-and-a-half times bigger than their modern counterparts, weighing up to 250kg (551lbs) and somewhat more imposing – with tall, radiating "sails" that ran along the entire ...

The Permian die-off occurred 251.9 million years ago. The Idaho ecosystem flourished 1.3 million years later, "quite rapid on a geological scale," according to Brayard. Complex epoch ...

The Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction Climate tipping point warning from 'Great Dying' Brendan Montague | 2nd July 2025 ...

A strange crest found on ancient reptile fossils suggests birds and dinosaurs may not have the exclusive lock on feather-like ...

Positioned between the worst mass extinction of all time and the one that finished off the dinosaurs, the Triassic extinction is, understandably, less notorious. But in its own way, it was just as ...

An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified ...