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

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

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

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 ...

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

Even during one of Earth's largest mass extinction events, where heat waves kill of a majority of Earth's species, at least ...

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

The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," took place 251.9 million years ago. At that time, the supercontinent Pangea was in the process of breaking up, but all land on ...

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 ...