(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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Indeed, the earliest mammal we are currently aware of is the Brasilodon quadrangularis – a diminutive critter described as ...

Living Through "The Great Dying" About 250 million years ago, a series of massive volcanic eruptions ... The findings challenge one prevailing theory about the Permian mass extinction event. That ...

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

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.

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