Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

The world around us is constantly changing, and with these changes come questions that challenge our understanding of life on ...

Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet's ...

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

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

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

A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

She wants to compare tree pollen from a modern forest killed by acid rain ... the killer responsible for the largest of the many mass extinctions that have struck the planet.

"We are now able to study big biogeographic changes of mass extinctions in a new way and ... reeling from cataclysmic volcanic activity in modern-day Siberia, which ushered in intense global ...

Fossils in China suggest some plants survived the End-Permian extinction, indicating land ecosystems fared differently from ...

A deep dive into Earth’s distant past shows how life on land struggled to recover long after the worst warming event of all time.