These Permian Era fossils represent just one small part of our Invertebrate Paleontology Collection. The CU Museum is currently home to approximately 280,000 marine invertebrate fossils—including many ...

Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period. These land-dwelling creatures would later evolve into mammals, but their ...

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

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

Fossils from Permian era exposed in P.E.I. after Fiona storm The fossils uncovered by Fiona are from the Permian period — between 300 million and 250 million years ago — and about 70 million ...

A Glimpse of Everyday Life in the Permian Period Beyond footprints, researchers uncovered fascinating details about the environment. Imprints of raindrops, seed fragments, and plant fossils were ...

Learn dinosaur facts, history and information about fossils in this collection of dinosaur documentaries. ... This occurred at the end of the Permian period and the start of the Triassic.

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...

But the Great Dying was a long goodbye— the extinction event took place over the course of up to a million years at the end of the Permian period. During that time, the fossil record shows drama ...

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the end-Permian mass extinction around 252 million years ago, according to new ...

The fossils uncovered by Fiona are from the Permian period – between 300 million and 250 million years ago – and about 70 million years before dinosaurs walked the Earth.