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

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

Long before the dinosaurs, the Permian period was a brutal time to be alive. In this video, we explore the strange creatures, harsh environments, and the massive extinction event that made the Permian ...

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

A new international study led by the University of Leeds and the China University of Geosciences has revealed that the collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s worst extinction event (about 252 ...

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

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

Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...

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 ...

The blood-curdling Permian monsters that ruled the Earth before dinosaurs. 25 June 2025. ... The area was formed at the end of the Permian, during a period of intense volcanic activity which ...

A strange world. The Permian began some 299 to 251 million years ago, when all the land on Earth had coalesced into a single, rabbit-shaped lump – the supercontinent Pangaea – surrounded by a ...