Everything has its pecking order, and geology is no exception. The cocks of the rocks are the big, swaggering periods of the past that fill books, television programmes and natural-history museums.

Explore the aftermath of the End-Permian mass extinction and how life triumphed in the Triassic period with new fossil discoveries. You've probably heard about The Great Dying, more formally known as ...

In a paper published in Science China Earth Sciences, a team of scientists propose a comprehensive summary of the main fossil sequences and lithostratigraphy of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) ...

The forerunners of dinosaurs and crocodiles in the Triassic period were able to migrate across areas of the ancient world deemed completely inhospitable to life, new research suggests. In a paper ...

The surprising discovery of a new species of extinct crocodile relative from the Triassic Favret Formation of Nevada, U.S., rewrites the story of life along the coasts during the first act of the Age ...

More about the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the “Great Dying,” was the most severe mass extinction in Earth’s history, occurring about 252 ...