Mass extinction events often result in the majority of species on earth disappearing. The planet in the throes of another ...

The end-Permian mass extinction occurred around 252 million years ago, and wiped out over 80% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial species due to extreme environmental changes including global ...

Nearly 200 million years after the End-Permian extinction, synapsids had a chance to rise again with the diversification and spread of mammals, including ourselves.

Around 250 million years ago, a mass extinction event wiped out more than 90% of life – and it all began in the water.

Their detailed sampling and dating of volcanic ash deposits in the strata narrowed the duration of the end-Permian extinction event to less than a few hundred thousand years, a mere instant in ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have done okay.

About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extinction – the most extreme event of its kind in Earth’s history.

The Great Dying at the end of the Permian Period 250 million years ago may have been amplified by El Niño events far stronger and longer lasting than any today. These mega El Niños caused wild ...

Some researchers today think we’re in the middle of a sixth mass extinction and that the end-Permian extinction may hold lessons for the current climate crisis.

A new study reveals that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or “Life oasis” for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most ...

Life—in its myriad forms and billions of years on Earth—hasn’t ever experienced as harrowing an event as the end-Permian mass extinction.

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extinction—the most extreme event of ...