Earth's rich biodiversity, ranging from the depths of the oceans to the highest mountain peaks, has not always been as ...

Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...

The Permian extinction reminds him of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, in which a corpse with 12 knife wounds is discovered on a train. Twelve different killers conspired to slay ...

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

Scientists may have found the smoking gun implicating massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia to the huge Permian extinction, known as the Great Dying. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal ...

Recently, we discussed evidence that the Earth's biggest mass extinction, the End Permian (often called the Great Dying), was triggered by a physiological crisis: high levels of atmospheric carbon ...

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million years ago, ... The Great Dying once wiped out 90% of life on Earth.

Around 252 million years ago, Earth’s most severe extinction incident wiped out all living things on the planet, but scientists have always wondered what made the event so severe. The Permian ...

Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global catastrophic events in Earth’s history, more devastating, than the one ...