First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.

Dinosaurs are not the only predators that have walked the Earth. Nearly 252 million years ago, when Earth witnessed the "Great Dying" mass extinction, a beast continued to survive and thrive during ...

One of these predators was Inostrancevia, a terrifying saber-toothed creature described as a proto-mammal that's older than the dinosaurs. For years, paleontologists believed it l ...

New finding dating back 236 million years are pushing the known existence of butterflies and moths further into the past. A team of archaeologists and paleontologists from several Argentine institutes ...

The paleontologists who made the discovery also identified a previously unknown Lepidoptera species and have named it Ampatiri eloisae.

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

Scientists don’t call it the “Great Dying” for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extinction – the most extreme ...

The Great Dying marks the transition from the Permian to the Triassic period, so it’s often referred to as the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, or the Permian-Triassic Boundary. If “Triassic ...

The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," took place 251.9 million years ago. At that time, the supercontinent Pangea was in the process of breaking up, but all land on ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster. By Laura Baisas Published Mar 12, 2025 2:00 PM EDT ...