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 ...

Although separated by hundreds of millions of years and entirely different triggers, the Great Dying and today’s Sixth Mass extinction mirror each other in their mechanisms and inevitable consequences ...

Credit: Shutterstock New fossil evidence suggests that after the Great Dying, Earth’s deadliest mass extinction, the collapse of tropical forests was the key driver behind a five-million-year global ...

201 million years ago, abundant atmospheric gas triggered a mass extinction: Study says history may repeat itself TOI Trending Desk / etimes.in / Jul 25, 2025, 14:30 IST AA ...

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 ...

This prehistoric reptile lived about 247 million years ago during the Triassic Period. Researchers have found that the Mirasaura had a fan-like sail on its back. Some fossils are truly ...

The End-Triassic extinction occurred 201 million years ago and set the stage for the age of dinosaurs.

Late Triassic vertebrate community in equatorial Pangaea An approximately 12-million-year gap in the continental vertebrate fossil record precedes the end-Triassic extinction (ETE), around 201 million ...