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

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

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

When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth was nearly lifeless, with nearly all life forms wiped out. This event, known as the ...

An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...

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

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million years ago, a new study found.

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

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

First study to explore how ancient reptiles spread across the Earth after the end-Permian mass extinction. New research ...

The end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred approximately 252 million years ago, wiped out over 80% of marine species, and its impact on land has long been debated.