When Siberian volcanoes kicked off the Great Dying, the real climate villain turned out to be the rainforests themselves: ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

The trigger for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event was the eruption of massive amounts of molten rock in modern day ...

The molten rock was hot enough to melt the surrounding rocks and release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into Earth's ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

The event in question is the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, also known as the “Great Dying,” which occurred around 252 ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

The catastrophic event, which occurred 252 million years ago, wiped out nearly 90 per cent of all life on Earth, both on land and in the oceans.

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...