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

Earth is no stranger to mass extinction events ... and the Great Dying – more formally known as the Permian-Triassic ...

Earth’s continents are constantly shifting. About 252 to 199 million years ago, all the continents were actually one huge “supercontinent” surrounded by one enormous ocean. Slowly, this ...

"That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone ... "Hundreds of cubic miles spread across Siberia—enough to cover the Earth to a depth of about 20 feet (6 meters)." For decades scientists have ...

Scientists think they know where the missing pieces to the puzzle of the evolution of dinosaurs could be found.

Life on Earth began over four billion years ago, not long after the Earth was formed. It wasn’t until the late Triassic period (approximately 225 million years ago) that mammals came into existence.

Global warming triggered by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that obliterated up to 80 percent of Earth’s species. These ...

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, ...

The shifts in Earth’s biodiversity are the ripples of one of the most catastrophic events in our planet’s history. The Triassic-Jurassic extinction was not as rapid or violent in its ...

Scientists in Alberta have discovered a fossilized neck bone of Cryodrakon boreas, hinting at an ancient croc attack.