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 ...

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

For months I'd been on the trail of the greatest natural disaster in Earth's history. About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet ...

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 extinction event. Researchers analyzed fossilized plants from Australia’s ...

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

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

That distinction belongs to the Permian-Triassic extinction or the Great Dying. During this dramatic period of climate change ... 90 percent of all species on Earth were wiped out and the ...

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

"Life on Earth had to adjust to repeated changes ... The earliest periods, in the Permian, were cold, while the first period of the Triassic—the Induan—had a disturbed climate which the ...