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

And others have proposed that the climate changes associated with the end-Permian era suited certain surviving animals more than others, allowing them to spread almost everywhere throughout the planet ...

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

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

or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the Cambrian period. The discovery, led by Prof. Liu Feng, from the Nanjing ...

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

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

For millions of years after the end-Permian mass extinction, the same few marine survivor species show up as fossils all over the planet. A new study reveals what drove this global biological ...

The researchers focused on the marine animal fossil record—the most complete ... Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling from cataclysmic volcanic activity in modern-day Siberia ...

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