Everyone knows that dinosaurs are extinct, and most people have some idea about how it might have occurred. But the exact ...

She believes that the Permian extinction was caused ... from the Siberian Traps and Permo-Triassic boundary rocks from China. He has determined the two events occurred within 100,000 years of ...

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.

The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the Great Dying ... The causes of this are still not entirely understood, but what is now the Atlantic Ocean experienced massive volcanic activity.

Around 250 million years ago, a mass extinction event wiped out more than 90% ... of Earth and Environment said: ‘During the Permian-Triassic crisis, El Niño persisted for much longer resulting ...

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

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

Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of the dinosaurs.

“You wouldn’t have lasted long, I don’t think, as a puny human swimming around in this ocean,” muses paleontologist ... by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that ...

If this increase continues at the same rate, we will reach the level of emissions that caused the Permian-Triassic mass extinction in around 2,700 years — a much faster timescale than the ...

Broader examination of Triassic ecosystems also indicates ... unstable resource availability on land. The end-Permian mass extinction event, 252 million years ago, was the largest ever, marked ...