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

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling from cataclysmic volcanic ... and better understand the presently unfolding biodiversity crisis, an impending mass extinction caused by the ...

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.

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian ... The earliest periods, in the Permian, were cold, while the first period of the Triassic—the Induan—had a disturbed climate which the scientists ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

or "Life oasis" for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the Cambrian period. The research, published in Science Advances, challenges ...