Imagine a world where dragonflies with wingspans rivaling that of a hawk darted through ancient forests, and millipedes as ...

These included brachiopods, which lived in shells resembling those of clams or cockles, and animals with jointed, external skeletons known as arthropods—the ancestors of insects, spiders ...

It can also be a saving grace for those who are afraid of giant insects. In a new study, scientists found that as temperatures have risen over the past half century, global beetle populations may have ...

No birds called, no insects hummed ... best place to see the terrestrial realm's transition from the Permian to the Triassic period." We ascended through sheep-ranching country toward the ...

Scientists later confirmed these were fossilized tracks of five prehistoric species from the Permian Period. The fossils tell the tale of a world on the brink. During the Permian Period ...

Nobu Tamura/Wikimedia Commons The Triassic Period (252-201 million years ago) began after Earth's worst-ever extinction event devastated life. The Permian-Triassic extinction ... It wiped out many ...