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

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

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

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

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

Nearly all the trees died. Looy had told me that the Black Triangle was the best place today to see what the world would have looked like after the Permian extinction. This didn't look like ...

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

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

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian ...

About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extinction – the most extreme event of its kind in Earth’s history. What followed was a ...