Unearthing Africa’s Permian Past For more than 15 years, an international group of paleontologists has been uncovering and ...

Humanity’s rapid CO2 emissions could be pushing us toward a mass extinction event, but how soon will the planet’s fragile ...

Researchers report three distinct tanystropheid taxa from the upper Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle Formation in the Petrified ...

Two hundred and fifty one million years ago, the worst mass extinction event Planet Earth has ever seen ruined the life of ...

Scientists have uncovered a 247-million-year-old fossil with jaw-dropping features that defy everything we thought we knew ...

In a groundbreaking study, new fossil evidence has shed light on the mysterious 5-million-year heatwave that followed Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event—known as the Permian-Triassic Mass ...

During the Triassic period nearly 250 million years ago, a small reptile scurried after insects in the canopy of a lush forest. The creature, which could fit snugly inside the palm of a hand, looked ...

By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered the magmatic engine behind Earth’s most devastating eruptions.

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the Great Dying – this was the most catastrophic of the five mass extinction events ...

Utah researchers say they believe they now know how existing crocodile, alligator and gharial species survived a pair of mass extinction events — information that could fuel future research.

You will find this mass extinction event referred to in a few different ways including the end-Triassic mass extinction (ETME) and Triassic-Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event (TJME).