Senator John Cornyn visited the Permian Basin Tuesday afternoon touring a Diamondback Energy well site. During the tour, ...

Researchers say Turpan-Hami Basin in Xinjiang hosted diverse plant life throughout end-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago.

Fossils in China suggest some plants survived the End-Permian extinction, indicating land ecosystems fared differently from ...

Can plants reveal the secrets of survival during Earth's darkest days? At an outcrop north of Sydney, Australia, the research ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part three in a four-part series. Read part one here ...

Some scientists have now branded the “Great Dying” as a “crisis on land, not an extinction” after new fossil discoveries led ...

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

The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," took place 251.9 million years ago. At that time, the ...

Learn more about the newly found fossils that show plant resilience during the “Great Dying.” ...

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