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

To understand this extinction, I wanted first to get ... to see the terrestrial realm's transition from the Permian to the Triassic period." We ascended through sheep-ranching country toward ...

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

Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling from cataclysmic volcanic ... and ocean acidification that killed ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

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

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

or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the ...

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

The mass extinction that ended the Permian ... The earliest periods, in the Permian, were cold, while the first period of the Triassic—the Induan—had a disturbed climate which the scientists ...

That distinction belongs to the Permian-Triassic extinction or the Great Dying. During this dramatic period of climate change about 252 million years ago, about 80 to 90 percent of all species on ...