The team named the new pterosaur species Eotephradactylus mcintireae. The generic name means ‘ash-winged dawn goddess’ and references the site’s volcanic ash and the animals’ position near the base of ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth went through its most devastating extinction event, the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction ...

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

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

An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...

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

New Permian species, Yinshanosaurus angustus, found in China.

In the end, over 90 per cent of marine life and 70 per cent of land animals were wiped out in the single worst extinction ...

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

The Earth is rapidly warming — but did you know? Similar climate upheavals over 300 million years ago once triggered massive fluctuations in marine ...

Throughout Earth’s history, there have been several global extinction events, wiping out large portions of life across the planet. From the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs to earlier ...

The end-Permian mass extinction was the deadliest event in Earth’s history. Also called the Great Dying, it is thought to have nearly wiped out all life on Earth 252 million years ago.