Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet’s ...

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 ...

Learn more about the newly found fossils that show plant resilience during the “Great Dying.” ...

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

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

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

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

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

She believes that the Permian extinction was caused by acid rain following ... generating catastrophic events from global wildfires to climate change. But the Permian detectives are faced with ...