A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst ...

What was the Permian Period like? What creatures thrived there before the period came to an abrupt end? Thanks to efforts by an international research team, 17 years of fossils collected in Africa may ...

Christian Sidor is a professor in the UW Department of Biology and curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Burke. And for the last 18 years, he’s been traveling back and forth to Zambia and Tanzania ...

Crucial insights from the Permian period have arrived from Tanzania and Zambia. These insights have been explained in a series of studies published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Sep 15, 2024, 02:57pm EDT Sep 15, 2024, 03:21pm EDT The early ...

Before the dawn of the dinosaurs, there was Soccoropteris cancellarei. The plant, which was found in Socorro County, is a newly discovered species that would have lived about 290 million years ago, ...