A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species. Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived. On land ...

Beneath the soil of Majorca, a treasure from the Permian era has emerged ... ruled as apex predators. These animals, neither fully mammals nor fully reptiles, exhibited a unique anatomy.

“These were predatory animals that fed on fishes and other ... of body sizes that they did during the earlier days of the Permian period. Some of the temnospondyls were small and fed on insects ...

This is shown by fossil belly skin impressions of a 275-million-year-old (mid-Permian period) resting animal, found in Poland ...

Among them were the chordates, to which vertebrates (animals with backbones ... survived until the mega-extinction that ended the Permian period 251 million years ago. A predator of the Cambrian ...

Scientists have found a rare life "oasis" where plants and animals thrived during Earth's deadliest mass extinction 252 ...

Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.

A new study reveals that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or “Life oasis” for terrestrial plants ...