An international team of paleontologists has spent more than 15 years excavating and studying fossils from Africa to expand our understanding of the Permian, a period of Earth's history that began 299 ...

Remains of a new dicynodont species dating back over 250 million years link China and South Africa, suggesting passage of ...

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the Great Dying – this was the most catastrophic of the five mass extinction events ...

Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that ...

Chinese researchers have identified a new species of dicynodont — an extinct group of mammalian species that appeared long before the dinosaurs — challenging past paleontological assumptions about ...

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 ...

More than 250 million years ago, life on Earth faced its most devastating crisis — a global event so severe that it wiped out nearly three-quarters of life on land and an even larger share in the ...

v. 1. pt. 1. Upper-Triassic and Liassic faunæ of the exotic blocks of Malla Johar in the Bhot Mahals of Kumaon / by C. Diener (1908). -- pt. 2. Anthracolithic fossils of Kashmir and Spiti / by C.

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 ...