Some have proposed that the disappearance of certain predators and competitors allowed some of the surviving creatures to thrive. And others have proposed that the climate changes associated with the ...

Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling from ... where the die-offs of certain predator and competitor creatures allow one surviving group of organisms to go gangbusters.

Earth was once ruled by giant reptiles. Tyrannosaurus rex, the king of tyrant lizards, crushed bones. Spinosaurus hunted in ...

proposed multiple mechanisms for why different locations had remarkably similar inhabitants following the end-Permian extinction. One hypothesis is "ecological release," where the die-offs of certain ...

Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

The Museum of Texas Tech houses fossils from the Triassic, Ice Age. Here's a behind the scenes look into the paleontology ...

the model suggests that certain creatures - mainly mollusks - flourished thanks to the onset of warmer water temperatures. Read More: The Permian Extinction: Life on Earth Nearly Disappeared ...

It is referred to as the Permian-Triassic extinction event because ... leading to mass extinctions of creatures such as conodonts (marine jawless eel-like vertebrates), conulariids (small coral ...

Paleontologists are uncovering a bonebed containing more than 19 giant amphibian skeletons from the Popo Agie Formation near ...