Using the fossil record and modern cold-blooded critters, paleontologist Kelsey Jenkins recreates the hearing capabilities of ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period. These land-dwelling creatures would later evolve into mammals, but their ...

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 ...

Fossil evidence from North China suggests that some ecosystems may have recovered within just two million years of the end-Permian mass extinction, much sooner than previously thought. Tropical ...

From looking into the future with artificial intelligence to learning about mummies of the past, the Museum of Idaho ventures further back in time, before dinosaurs existed.

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 ...

A chance discovery by a hiker in the Italian Alps has led scientists to the remains of an entire prehistoric ecosystem, previously hidden under layers of ice and snow. The find, believed to date back ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its most catastrophic extinction event. Widely known as the Permian extinction and dubbed the “Great Dying,” it wiped out an estimated 90 percent of ...