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

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

A new study reveals how ancient plant ecosystems recovered from the End-Permian mass extinction, Earth’s most catastrophic ...

Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth.

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

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

Can plants uncover the survival secrets of Earth’s darkest days? A research team from (UCC), the University of Connecticut, ...

Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.

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

This image shows the reconstruction of the terrestrial landscape before (B), during (A), and after (C) the mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period in ...