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

An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...

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

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

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.

Ever since the world was formed more than four billion years ago, it has seen a number of mass extinctions that have almost ...

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

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

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 ...

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...