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

"That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone. Brace yourself, you're about to go through the extinction." The fossils embedded in this road cut suggest that synapsids took a savage hit at the end ...

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.

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

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

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

The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred approximately ... was based on the discovery of many "missing" species in Early Triassic strata elsewhere, indicating temporary migration rather ...

About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extinction – the ... known as the earliest Triassic geological period.

The mass extinction that killed 80% of life on Earth 250 million ... A 2020 study, for example, found that a smaller extinction event at the end of the Triassic (201 million years ago) was driven by ...

Broader examination of Triassic ecosystems also indicates ... unstable resource availability on land. The end-Permian mass extinction event, 252 million years ago, was the largest ever, marked ...

Broader examination of Triassic ecosystems also indicates ... unstable resource availability on land. The end-Permian mass extinction event, 252 million years ago, was the largest ever, marked ...