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 ...

Instead, they showed the same range of body sizes that they did during the earlier days of the Permian period. Some of the temnospondyls were small and fed on insects while others were larger.

“The temnospondyls showed the same range of body sizes as in the Permian, some of them small and feeding on insects ...

To study how the temnospondyls adapted and survived over the next five million years, researchers examined about 100 of their fossils from throughout that period ... body sizes as in the Permian, some ...

"I'm feeling very proud, especially to have made a small contribution to science." Hiker accidentally stumbles upon ...

It's not always an absolutely gobsmacking profusion of uncontrollably bizarre life, as occurred with what's aptly called the Cambrian Explosion, a period ... fossils of insects that were likely ...

Fossils discovered in China indicate that the End-Permian mass extinction ... gymnosperm forests and ferns in rock layers from this period, suggesting that some ecosystems remained intact.

“NATURE vibrates with rhythms, climatic and dystrophic, those finding stratigraphic expression ranging In period from the rapid ... history the beating of an insect's wing.

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 ...

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