The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth.

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

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

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

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 ...

Research shows how Earth's climate suddenly warmed 10°C, transforming ecosystems and causing the worst mass extinction in history.

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

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

Fossils in China suggest some plants survived the End-Permian extinction, indicating land ecosystems fared differently from ...

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 ...

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 ...