Read about the Jurassic extinction event that wiped out many species at the beginning of this Period and led to the rise of the dinosaurs.

In a lecture in Rio, the director of the Center for Health and Human Performance at the University of London spoke about the ...

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

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

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

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.

Toward the end of the Permian period, the planet was reeling from cataclysmic volcanic ... better understand the presently unfolding biodiversity crisis, an impending mass extinction caused by the ...

About 252 million years ago, the end-Permian mass extinction wiped out up to 80% of marine species, leading to a period where marine communities worldwide became unusually similar. Researchers from ...