After the end-Permian mass extinction, certain species thrived in warmer, oxygen-depleted waters, spreading globally. This ...

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

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 extinction event at the end of the Triassic (201 million years ago) was ...