How survivors spanned the globe after Earth's biggest mass extinction
Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...
Ancient “Life Oasis” in China Survived Earth’s Deadliest Mass Extinction
Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...
Earth’s 5 catastrophic mass extinctions, explained
Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...
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Marine life became strangely uniform after Earth’s worst mass extinction
After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.
Stanford Scientists Crack 252-Million-Year-Old Biodiversity Mystery
Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...
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How survivors spanned the globe after Earth’s biggest mass extinction
Fossils before and after the end-Permian extinction “go from richly diverse ... that surpass even those seen in the earliest Triassic, which has been the greatest homogenization event to date ...