The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

The event has been attributed to intense global warming triggered by a period of volcanic activity in Siberia, known as the ...

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared.Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the Great ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

The end-Permian mass extinction occurred around 252 million years ago, and wiped out over 80% of marine species and 70% of ...

By the time the butterflies came, the world was already healing. Roughly 236 million years ago, in the scarred aftermath of Earth’s greatest extinction event, a hippo-sized herbivore ambled through ...

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

Fossils reveal rapid land recovery after end-Permian extinction Fossil evidence from North China suggests that some ecosystems may have recovered within just two million years of the end-Permian ...

As it turns out, they weren’t hard to find. “The rocks we found were outcropping,” says Goulart, now 55. After periods of drought, rain had washed away sediments and exposed the fossils.

The Permian period immediately predated the dinosaurs. Ronchi said he was also “surprised by the abundance and preservation” of the fossils when he first saw the images.

Tropical riparian ecosystems—those found along rivers and wetlands—recovered much faster than expected following the end-Permian mass extinction around 252 million years ago, according to new ...