A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth.

Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.

Scientists found that forests did not recover quickly after Earth’s worst extinction. Instead, plant life changed in phases.

Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of species by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial predators, academics have found.

The rate of stars going supernova near Earth appears to match two mass extinctions -- 372 million years ago and 445 million ...

This image shows the reconstruction of the terrestrial landscape before (B), during (A), and after (C) the mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period in ...

Some scientists have now branded the “Great Dying” as a “crisis on land, not an extinction” after new fossil discoveries led ...

Researchers used modelling and plant fossils to follow the planet's transition to 10 degrees of warming, which eradicated ...

The end-Permian mass extinction event, 252 million years ago ... Due to the intense global warming of the first five million years of the Triassic, there is evidence that life on land and in ...

First a supernova would blast Earth with destructive ... They wondered whether this lined up at all with mass extinction events on Earth, some of which have previously been blamed on nearby ...