Though the End-Permian mass extinction event is predicted to have killed off 80% of all life on Earth, new research is revealing survivors. In what is now China, it seems that plants were able to ...

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

The Capitanian mass extinction was once lumped in with the “Great Dying” of the end-Permian mass extinction ... teams shed new light on the event, revealing a pattern of cause and effect ...

Something known as a hyperthermal event — a sudden warming ... The biggest mass cataclysm of all time, called the end-Permian extinction, occurred 252 million years ago. Some 95% of species ...

During a cataclysmic mass ... the extinction event began until 160,000 years after it ended. Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape at the onset of the end Permian mass ...

Today, an El Niño event, which affects wind patterns ... Some researchers today think we’re in the middle of a sixth mass extinction and that the end-Permian extinction may hold lessons for ...

(Image Credit: Yang Dinghua) Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian ... during the mass extinction period. The findings challenge one prevailing theory ...

Researchers from the United States, United Kingdom, and China reveal in a recent study published in Science Advances how sea life recovered from the end-Permian mass extinction, an event that killed ...

These coals date to the late Permian (around 259 million ... We then compared this pattern with the most famous mass extinction of all: the end-Cretaceous event that took place 66 million years ...