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

The situation on land is far hazier. Only a handful of places around the world have rock layers containing fossils from land ...

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

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

Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape at the onset of end Permian mass extinction based on fossil ...

Can plants uncover the survival secrets of Earth’s darkest days? A research team from (UCC), the University of Connecticut, ...

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

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

Tetrapod skeletal fossils dating to approximately 150,000 years before the end-Permian mass extinction (Image credit: NIGPAS) This survival may have been particularly possible at humid, high ...

A new study reveals that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or “Life oasis” for terrestrial plants ...