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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.