Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet's ...

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species. Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived. On land ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

“These were predatory animals that fed on fishes and other prey ... of body sizes that they did during the earlier days of the Permian period. Some of the temnospondyls were small and fed ...

An environmental group instrumental in winning an endangered species listing for a struggling lizard species in the Permian ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth. Huge volcanoes erupted, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon ...

Learn more about the newly found fossils that show plant resilience during the “Great Dying.” ...

Toward the end of the Permian period, the planet was reeling ... offered a modern analogy with land animals: “If someone asked you today where you’d find kangaroos, you’d say Australia ...