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

Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling from cataclysmic volcanic ... and ocean acidification that killed most marine organisms 252 million years ago. But the extinction alone doesn't ...

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

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

or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the ...

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

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

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

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

During the first period of the Mesozoic Era (Triassic ... It is referred to as the Permian-Triassic extinction event because it spanned these geological Periods. You may also see it called the ...

or "Life oasis" for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the Cambrian period. The research, published in Science Advances, challenges ...