Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived ... For years scientists have known that the deep ocean lacked oxygen in the late Permian. But most life is concentrated in shallow ...

The end-Permian mass extinction ... paleontology at University College London who was not involved in the new study. Marine ...

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

Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of species by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial predators, academics have found.

"The temnospondyls showed the same range of body sizes as in the Permian, some of them small and feeding on insects, and others larger. These larger forms included long-snouted animals that ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be ...

Trilobites were extinct arthropods, ancestors of spiders and crabs and ancient cousins to woodlice, which had flourished between the start of the Cambrian era and the end of the Permian ...

There are fewer mammal species here — only 18 — than on the mainland because animals must cross at least 14 miles of ... four highest peaks in Texas and the world’s most extensive Permian fossil reef.