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

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... "That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone. Brace yourself, you're about to go through the extinction." The fossils embedded ...

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

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

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

The Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, was the most devastating event in Earth’s history. 96% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates vanished around 252 ...

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

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

However, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was not the worst loss of life in our planet’s history. That distinction belongs to the Permian-Triassic extinction or the Great Dying.

Broader examination of Triassic ecosystems also indicates ... unstable resource availability on land. The end-Permian mass extinction event, 252 million years ago, was the largest ever, marked ...

Broader examination of Triassic ecosystems also indicates ... unstable resource availability on land. The end-Permian mass extinction event, 252 million years ago, was the largest ever, marked ...

The Early Permian dissorophid Cacops displays its fearsome dentition ... Of all the animals facing a major mass extinction event 252 million years ago, it is perhaps appropriate that frog-like ...