Though the End-Permian mass extinction event is predicted to have killed off 80% of all life on Earth, new research is ...

Scientists have identified a refuge in China where it seems that plants weathered the planet's worst die-off. The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," took place 251.9 ...

What was the cause of the Great Dying? By the end of the Permian ... (pensive music) - Scientists agree that Earth has seen five mass extinction events in its history, with the end Permian ...

Some scientists don’t consider this event a mass extinction event based on analyses suggesting the biodiversity trend was driven more by a decrease in speciation rates than by an increase in ...

The end of Permian mass extinction occurred 251.9 million years ago, marking the close of a geological period known as ...

Some scientists don’t consider this event a mass extinction event based on analyses suggesting the biodiversity trend was driven more by a decrease in speciation rates than by an increase in ...

For decades, scientists have debated what wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. The usual suspects? A massive ...

"Welcome to the Black Triangle," said paleobiologist Cindy Looy as our van slowed to a stop in the gentle hills of the northern Czech Republic, a few miles from the German and Polish borders.

It’s quite remarkable that a class of animals that turn up their toes at a bit of pollution could survive the asteroid strike.

In its 4.5 billion year history, Earth has undergone five mass extinctions and we are potentially in a sixth era of mass death. Today’s crocodylians are the surviving members of a lineage called ...

An ocean mass extinction event may not be that far off ... The analysis applies data we know from the “Great Dying.” Scientists say this extinction event took place 252 million years ago.

But after a lifetime trying to make sense of the vast ecosystems that lie beneath the ocean's surface, the 73-year-old is now becoming a prophet of their extinction ... Great Barrier Reef on Death ...