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.

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, 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 ...

The most famous die-off ended the reign of the dinosaurs 65 million years ... the terrestrial realm's transition from the Permian to the Triassic period." We ascended through sheep-ranching ...

That distinction belongs to the Permian-Triassic extinction or the Great Dying. During this dramatic period of climate ... as the ancestors of mammals and dinosaurs began to diversify.

A deep dive into Earth’s distant past shows how life on land struggled to recover long after the worst warming event of all time.

A new study reveals how ancient plant ecosystems recovered from the End-Permian mass extinction, Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event. Researchers analyzed fossilized plants from Australia’s ...