Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

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 ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

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 ...

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 ...

During the "Great Dying" around 252 million years ago ... Ultimately, the model allowed the team to study "mass extinctions in a new way," giving them "a better sense of why some animal groups made it ...

Nicknamed “The Great Dying,” this was the deadliest of all ... On land, large herbivores like Moschops also disappeared. This extinction cleared the way for dinosaurs but wiped out most ...

Most people think of crocodilians as living fossils—stubbornly unchanged, prehistoric relics that have ruled the world's ...

You may also see it called the Great Dying. The significance of this event ... Sea levels rose and the oceans became more acidic, leading to mass extinctions of creatures such as conodonts ...

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 ...

"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.

they did not survive the "Great Dying." However, clams took over the oceans in the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction, along with oysters, snails, and slugs. Earth’s largest mass extinction ...