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

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species. Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived. On land ...

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

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

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

“These were predatory animals that fed on fishes and other prey ... of body sizes that they did during the earlier days of the Permian period. Some of the temnospondyls were small and fed ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth. Huge volcanoes erupted, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon ...

Learn more about the newly found fossils that show plant resilience during the “Great Dying.” ...

Toward the end of the Permian period, the planet was reeling ... offered a modern analogy with land animals: “If someone asked you today where you’d find kangaroos, you’d say Australia ...