Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

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 ...

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

But the extinction alone doesn’t explain the bizarre presence of its ... known as the earliest Triassic geological period. To convey the surreal concept of taxonomic homogenization on a ...

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

Danny Anduza is a paleontologist. Hailing from Oakland, California, he made a long, multistate journey to offer support for ...