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

Researchers say Turpan-Hami Basin in Xinjiang hosted diverse plant life throughout end-Permian mass extinction 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 ...

Some scientists have now branded the “Great Dying” as a “crisis on land, not an extinction” after new fossil discoveries led ...

Five 'mass extinctions' have decimated our planet since it was formed - now scientists claim the answers to two could be ...

Unlike past events, which were triggered by events ... that led to previous mass extinctions, including The Permian-Triassic mass extinction 252 million years ago and the Triassic-Jurassic mass ...

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

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

An environmental group instrumental in winning an endangered species listing for a struggling lizard species in the Permian ...