Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing over a period of roughly 30 million years, but that would come to a halt ...

For years, a mysterious fossil specimen defied categorization, until one paleontologist made a surprising discovery.

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

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 ...

The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying ... CO2 got as high as 2,500 parts per million (ppm) in this period, compared with current levels of 425 ppm.

Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling from cataclysmic ... presently unfolding biodiversity crisis, an impending mass extinction caused by the planet-altering activities of ...

In a lecture in Rio, the director of the Center for Health and Human Performance at the University of London spoke about the ...

China discovers terrestrial "Life oasis" from end-Permian mass extinction period Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters Journal Science Advances Funder National Natural Science Foundation of ...

The Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction event may have wiped out some 85 percent of species, including many of the invertebrates this period is known for. Some scientists hypothesize the extinction ...

China discovers terrestrial "Life oasis" from end-Permian mass extinction period Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters Journal Science Advances Funder National Natural Science Foundation of ...