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 ...

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

Earth. Yet, a region in China provided a haven for plants and animals, revealing unexpected resilience. This discovery, published ...

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

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.

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

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

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Permian mass extinction, 252 million years ago, was linked to a 10°C rise in global temperatures due to massive volcanic CO 2 emissions. This led to climate ...

(Image Credit: Yang Dinghua) Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as ...

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

The spot may have served as a refugium–or life oasis–for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, when 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out about 252 million years ...