Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

The world around us is constantly changing, and with these changes come questions that challenge our understanding of life on ...

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 ...

Deforestation, farming and climate-fuelled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on ...

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

This destabilized the climate and the carbon cycle, leading to dramatic global warming, deoxygenated oceans, and mass extinction. However, many plants survived, leaving behind fossils which ...

To understand this extinction, I wanted first to get a sense ... CO2 is a greenhouse gas; it would have contributed to global warming that lasted millions of years." The short-term effects alone ...

National Panda Day highlights global conservation efforts to protect pandas from habitat loss and possible extinction.

Targeted conservation actions are essential to prevent wildlife extinctions, but more efforts are needed to fully recover biodiversity, according to a new study. Targeted conservation actions are ...

Yet "more than a quarter (28 percent) of zoogeomorphic species are vulnerable to future population decline or regional or global extinction," the study's authors warned. Their research, published ...