A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

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Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the ...

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

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

In the end, over 90 per cent of marine life and 70 per cent of land animals were wiped out in the single worst extinction ...

Shell-rich rocks trace a mostly upward climb in ocean life, with each mass extinction slashing both diversity and biomass ...

Dr. Spencer Lucas Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Natural History and Science Museum in Albuquerque, speaks to an ...

Experts have put the normal extinction rate for the planet at between 0.1 and 1 species per 10,000 species/100 years. A mass extinction event is quite different.