A group of scientists, working alongside NASA and researchers from Tōhō University in Japan, has determined a staggering timeline for the complete extinction of all life on Earth. According to ...

More mammals were living on the ground several million years before the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history, according to new research. The explosive supernova deaths of ...

The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," took place 251.9 million years ago. At that time, the supercontinent Pangea was in the process of breaking up, but all land on ...

For months I'd been on the trail of the greatest natural disaster in Earth's history ... the world would have looked like after the Permian extinction. This didn't look like apocalypse.

When we talk about mass extinction events, the first case that usually comes to mind is when an asteroid struck Earth about 66 million years ago and triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs.

The end-Permian mass extinction event, 252 million years ago, was the largest ever, marked by the loss of as many as 90% of species. A key line of research has been to focus on the survivors and ...

Romantic poets and novelists, including Mary Shelley and Lord Byron, began to envision human extinction as the natural endpoint of geology and wrote dystopian works in which the earth was ...

The end-Permian mass extinction event, 252 million years ago, was the largest ever, marked by the loss of as many as 90% of species. A key line of research has been to focus on the survivors and ...