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 ...

The findings in the Italian Alps provide a unique opportunity to study the biodiversity of the Permian period. The fossils reveal a thriving ecosystem with an array of species, from insects to ...

Steffensen sent photos to a research team who determined the footprints belonged to a prehistoric reptile that roamed the Earth during the Permian period, the age immediately before dinosaurs.

or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the Cambrian period. The discovery, led by Prof. Liu Feng, from the Nanjing ...