A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

Learn about the climate changes that followed the end-Permian extinction, allowing select species to take over the planet's ...

Scientists don’t call it the “Great Dying” for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... between a dog and a lizard—the synapsids were Earth's first great dynasty of land vertebrates. "We've found fossils of many ...

Read More: The Permian Extinction: Life on Earth Nearly Disappeared During the ‘Great Dying' "This suggests that local climate and geographic factors can create surprising pockets of resilience ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

That distinction belongs to the Permian-Triassic extinction or the Great Dying. During this dramatic period of climate change about 252 million years ago, about 80 to 90 percent of all species on ...

After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.

Scientists don’t call it the “Great Dying” for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extinction – the most extreme ...