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

Local die-offs of marine life can result. But Wignall suspects that the entire ocean may have stagnated in Permian times. What could still the currents that oxygenate the ocean? Perhaps a lack of ...

Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet's ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, was the most devastating event in Earth’s history. 96% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates vanished around 252 ...

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

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

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

Images like this have many wondering how debris from the wildfire could impact marine life. Marine biologists warn it may take months or years to understand the Palisades Fire's full impact on sea ...

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

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

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life ... Permian mass extinction, which occurred approximately 252 million years ago, wiped out over 80% of ...

This percentage is significantly lower than the marine extinction rate ... than other regions after the end-Permian mass extinction. All of this plant life offered vital support for migrating ...