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

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

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

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

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.

When we talk about mass extinction events ... but were primarily linked to the water, just like modern amphibians such as frogs and salamanders. We know that climates then were hot, and especially ...

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

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

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.

The end-Permian mass extinction event, 252 million years ago ... but were primarily linked to the water, just like modern amphibians such as frogs and salamanders. We know that climates then ...

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian ...

In turn, they were replaced by tough, shrubby plants resembling modern clubmosses ... Leader of the Mass Extinction Group at University College Cork, "forests recover eventually, but extinction ...