More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research has revealed.

For decades, the prevailing theory behind the mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs has pointed to a ...

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

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

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

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.

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

Fossils in China reveal plants survived the End-Permian extinction Rock layers show a gradual shift in plant species, not a die-off Humid, high-latitude regions may have provided plant refuges ...

A) Landscape of a densely populated lake plain by a forest of conifers or seed ferns during the Permian mass extinction, as indicated by the LA assemblages. B) Lake plain dominated by herbaceous ...

Considered to be the largest mass extinction in which life on Earth nearly came to an end, the event wiped out around 80 per cent of marine species. The exact cause of the event is still not clear ...