This is a well-written important paper on the recovery of fauna and flora following the end-Permian extinction event in several continental sites in northern China. The convincing conclusion, a rapid ...

The new study deciphered the single-most greatest mass extinction on Earth driven by a natural calamity that still exists.

A new exhibit featuring nearly 300 never-before-seen fossils will open at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science ...

We hope to have demonstrated that trying to compare or equate the end-Permian marine invertebrate mass extinction in terms of taxonomic diversity dynamics with the Permo-Triassic plant biotic crisis ...

Dinosaurs long dominated Earth's land ecosystems with a multitude of forms including plant-eating giants like Argentinosaurus, meat-eating brutes like Tyrannosaurus and weirdos like Therizinosaurus, ...

Dinosaurs evolved from more primitive reptiles in the aftermath of Earth’s biggest mass-extinction event caused by extreme volcanism at the end of the Permian Period about 252 million years ago.

(Desks should have reset buttons.) The planet earth has a reset button, called mass extinction. It has been pressed five times so far. The most drastic occasion was at the end of the Permian period, ...