New Permian species, Yinshanosaurus angustus, found in China.

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

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

How did ancient extinction events contribute to global climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Stanford study shows ocean biomass has risen over 540 million years, linking biodiversity to long-term ecosystem health.

In the end, over 90 per cent of marine life and 70 per cent of land animals were wiped out in the single worst extinction ...

Biomass reveals the real impact and energy flow of life in an ecosystem, like knowing not just the cast of a play, but who ...

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

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: ...

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