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

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.

After the end-Permian mass extinction, certain species thrived in warmer, oxygen-depleted waters, spreading globally. This ...

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

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

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling from cataclysmic ... presently unfolding biodiversity crisis, an impending mass extinction caused by the planet-altering activities of ...

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 ...

The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying ... CO2 got as high as 2,500 parts per million (ppm) in this period, compared with current levels of 425 ppm.