A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

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

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

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

She believes that the Permian extinction was caused ... from the Siberian Traps and Permo-Triassic boundary rocks from China. He has determined the two events occurred within 100,000 years of ...

Of all the animals facing a major mass extinction event 252 million years ago ... Conditions during the Early Triassic were harsh. Repeated volcanic activity triggered long periods of global ...

However, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was not the worst loss of life in our planet’s history. That distinction belongs to the Permian-Triassic extinction or the Great Dying.

A rare fossil unearthed in Mongolia's Gobi Desert has led to the identification of a new dinosaur species Duonychus ...

We know that climates then were hot, and especially so after the extinction event. How could these water-loving animals have been so successful?" The Early Triassic was a time of repeated volcanic ...

Of all the animals facing a major mass extinction event 252 million years ago ... Conditions during the Early Triassic were harsh. Repeated volcanic activity triggered long periods of global warming, ...