A newly published review of 252-million-year-old fossils from southwest Germany is offering a deeper understanding of life’s ...

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

The end-Permian mass extinction occurred around ... with only sparse and simple life remaining. The fossils from this period indicate a monospecific community, meaning that only a single type ...

A total of 32 US states pump oil, but just over 42 percent of the country’s crude oil production comes out of Texas, ...

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.

Credit: NIGPAS Conifer trunk fossil recovered from the onset of the end-Permian mass extinction in ... the marine extinction rate during the same period. This conclusion was based on the discovery ...

However, many plants survived, leaving behind fossils which scientists ... The earliest periods, in the Permian, were cold, while the first period of the Triassic—the Induan—had a disturbed ...

Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as well as sedimentological ...

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