Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...
A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.
Scientists racing the clock to finish excavating top southern Utah dinosaur fossil site before construction on a power ...
Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...
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.
"See that road cut?" he asked. "That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone. Brace yourself, you're about to go through the extinction." The fossils embedded in this road cut suggest that synapsids ...
Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...
New research from the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart reconstructs Triassic terrestrial ecosystems using fossils ...
After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.