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 ...

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 ...

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.

Scientists later confirmed these were fossilized tracks of five prehistoric species from the Permian Period. The fossils tell the tale of a world on the brink. During the Permian Period ...

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 ...