A Texas representative wants to remove a rare lizard from the endangered species list, which would pave the way for oil and ...

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

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

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

The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred approximately 252 million years ago, wiped out over 80% of marine species, and its impact on land has long been debated. One prevailing theory ...

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

Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet's ...

It killed off about 95 percent of marine species and 75 percent of land-locked lifeforms ... The findings challenge one prevailing theory about the Permian mass extinction event. That theory claims ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

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

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

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