New Permian species, Yinshanosaurus angustus, found in China.

After the end-Permian extinction, hardy ancestors of dinosaurs defied deadly tropical heat zones, migrating up to 10,000 miles and setting the stage for their future dominance. Credit: Shutterstock ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Wright’s fellowship focuses on understanding the End Permian mass extinction, which occurred around 250 million years ago, before the first dinosaurs ever evolved.

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, Stanford researchers have measured how the abundance of ocean life has changed over the past ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth was nearly lifeless, with nearly all life forms wiped out. This event, known as the ...

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.

How did ancient extinction events contribute to global climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

Further, photic zone euxinia preceded the mass extinction at the end of the Permian at least locally 9, whereas euxinia did not appear until after the T–J extinction 1.

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...