Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

How did ancient extinction events contribute to global climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth was nearly lifeless, with nearly all life forms wiped out. This event, known as the ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

And now, in a triumph of cross-border collaboration, an international team, armed with a rich Chinese fossil record and ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

The distinctive Permian ecosystem described by the most recent paper, made up of fossils located near Buffalo Gap, was first uncovered by Judie Ostlien, Jo Helen Cox, and Robert Burt, a number of ...

The fossil record shows that around 251.9 million years ago, the boundary line between the Permian era and the Triassic era, four different animal groups each took their turns serving as top ...