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

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

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

Toward the end of the Permian period, the planet was reeling from ... such as the end-Cretaceous event that famously wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs. “Our model offers a great way of studying ...

This period, known as the Permian, occurred even before dinosaurs roamed the earth. It was a crucial time in the history of life on our planet. Fossilised rock and ecosystem depiction. Source: ...

They show the gritty side of dinosaur life,” Lacovara said. “Dinosaurs were authentic beings that lived under their own ...