Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

This coincided with a mass extinction, likely the worst in Earth's history.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need ...

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

A 259-million-year-old fossil skull of Yinshanosaurus angustus has been found, filling a key evolutionary gap in ...

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: once they collapsed, Earth’s biggest carbon sponge vanished, CO₂ rocketed, and ...

Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...

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

Mantle plumes were the implicit link in previous studies relating BLOBS to giant volcanic eruptions. Their shape is a bit ...

The event in question is the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, also known as the “Great Dying,” which occurred around 252 ...

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

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