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

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

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

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

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

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

The water and sea floor would be full of them ... this piece erroneously said that at the end of the Permian era there were no trees or animals.

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be ...