Even during one of Earth's largest mass extinction events, where heat waves kill of a majority of Earth's species, at least ...

Fossils in China suggest some plants survived the End-Permian extinction, indicating land ecosystems fared differently from ...

Decades of acid rain generated by power-plant emissions have devastated ... About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species.

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants ...

A team of scientists from University College Cork (UCC), the University of Connecticut, and the Natural History Museum of ...

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

Can plants reveal the secrets of survival during Earth's darkest days? At an outcrop north of Sydney, Australia, the research ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

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

Scientists have found a rare life "oasis" where plants and animals thrived during Earth's deadliest mass extinction 252 ...

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