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

Read More: The Permian Extinction: Life on Earth Nearly Disappeared During the ‘Great Dying' Applying evidence from experiments on extant marine animals, the team populated their model with the modern ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

The end-Permian mass extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," took place 251.9 million years ago. At that time, the supercontinent Pangea was in the process of breaking up, but all land on ...

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

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 m ...

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

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 ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction event, also known as the Great Dying, took place roughly 252 million years ago and was one of the most significant events in the history of our planet. It represents ...

Living Through "The Great Dying" About 250 million years ago ... The findings challenge one prevailing theory about the Permian mass extinction event. That theory claims that volcanic eruptions in ...

(Image Credit: Tami Freed/Shutterstock) While trilobites, like the ones pictured here, survived for millions of years, they did not survive the "Great Dying." However, clams took over the oceans in ...