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

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

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 ...

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

New Permian species, Yinshanosaurus angustus, found in China.

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 ...

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

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 Earth is rapidly warming — but did you know? Similar climate upheavals over 300 million years ago once triggered massive fluctuations in marine ...

This was the period just after the end-Permian mass extinction – Earth’s biggest mass extinction event to date and a time of extreme storms and long dry seasons, something like today’s monsoonal ...