This coincided with a mass extinction, likely the worst in Earth's history.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth went through its most devastating extinction event, the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction ...

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

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 ...

New fossil evidence has revealed that the collapse of tropical forests during the Earth’s most devastating extinction event ...

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

Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...

The event has been attributed to intense global warming triggered by a period of volcanic activity in Siberia, known as the ...

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 ...

How did ancient extinction events contribute to global climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature ...