Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet's ...

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

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

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be ...

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian ...

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

The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," took ... A 2020 study, for example, found that a smaller ...

The mass extinction event, which took place at the end of the Permian Period 252 million years ago, wiped out over 80 percent of marine species. Its impact on terrestrial ecosystems has been a subject ...

An ancient mass extinction event left a long-hidden refuge, whose survivors repopulated the Earth much faster than previously believed.