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) ...

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 ...