Starting January 31, the Museum of Idaho invites visitors to step far deeper into prehistory with the opening of Life Before ...

The Permian Extinction was one of the most significant events in the history of our planet, one that took place over thousands, or even millions, of years. Our knowledge of what exactly happened is ...

A hiker escaping summer heat in the Italian Alps in 2023 spotted unusual markings on a rock—fossilized footprints from creatures that lived 280 million years ago, long before dinosaurs appeared.

Sharks might be the all time bullet-dodging champions. They’ve been around for about 450 million years, longer than trees, longer than the rings of Saturn, and longer than most of the other life on ...

An artistic rendering of an evening approximately 252 million years ago during the late Permian in the Luangwa Basin of Zambia. The scene includes several saber-toothed gorgonopsians and beaked ...

Almost all life on land and in the ocean was wiped out during "The Great Dying," a mass extinction event at the end of the Permian Era about 250 million years ago. New evidence suggests that the Great ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research. The Permian–Triassic ...

The West Texas desert has a surprising feature: a prehistoric ocean reef. There is a surprising natural wonder in the middle of the vast West Texas desert: a prehistoric ocean reef built from the ...

Introduction : going to Nevada -- ch. 1. Welcome to the revolution! -- ch. 2. The overlooked extinction -- ch. 3. The mother of all extinctions -- ch. 4. The misinterpreted extinction -- ch. 5. A new ...