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

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

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

A new international study led by the University of Leeds and the China University of Geosciences has revealed that the collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s worst extinction event (about 252 ...

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

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 ...

The Environmental Policy Group urges the state government to protect the 252-million-year-old Guryul Ravine Fossil Park in ...

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 ...

New fossil evidence has revealed that the collapse of tropical forests during the Earth’s most devastating extinction event ...