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 ...

Around 252 million years ago, Earth was nearly lifeless, with nearly all life forms wiped out. This event, known as the ...

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

Further, photic zone euxinia preceded the mass extinction at the end of the Permian at least locally 9, whereas euxinia did not appear until after the T–J extinction 1.

The Permian period lasted from 299 million to 252 million years ago. During this time, the global climate rapidly warmed, ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the world were wiped out, disrupting the carbon cycle and ensuring that Earth re ...

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

The collapse of tropical forests during Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.

As climate change threatens tropical forests, a new study shows how the loss of those forests can be devastating to life on ...

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

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

The Permian-Triassic extinction event is thought to have been triggered by massive volcanic activity in the region that is now Siberia, which raised CO2 levels in the atmosphere. The planet’s ...