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

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

The situation on land is far hazier. Only a handful of places around the world have rock layers containing fossils from land ...

Can plants uncover the survival secrets of Earth’s darkest days? A research team from (UCC), the University of Connecticut, ...

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

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

Scientists have found a rare life "oasis" where plants and animals thrived during Earth's deadliest mass extinction 252 ...

Tetrapod skeletal fossils dating to approximately 150,000 years before the end-Permian mass extinction (Image credit: NIGPAS) This survival may have been particularly possible at humid, high ...

What made them a great fossil-find was their three-lobed exoskeleton ... as they burrowed into mud to try to survive the Permian mass-extinction. They had become little pearls, and were absolutely ...