A new study reveals how ancient plant ecosystems recovered from the End-Permian mass extinction, Earth’s most catastrophic ...

For months I'd been on the trail of the greatest natural disaster in Earth's history. About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet ...

Scientists have found a rare life "oasis" where plants and animals thrived during Earth's deadliest mass extinction 252 ...

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

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants ...

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

"Life on Earth had to adjust to repeated changes ... The earliest periods, in the Permian, were cold, while the first period of the Triassic—the Induan—had a disturbed climate which the ...

That distinction belongs to the Permian-Triassic extinction or the Great Dying. During this dramatic period of climate change ... 90 percent of all species on Earth were wiped out and the ...

Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.

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

NANJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- A new study has revealed that a region of the Turpan-Hami Basin in northwest China's Xinjiang ...