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 ...

The crisis for marine animals would have started when toxic levels of CO2 entered the shallows. Fish would have grown lethargic and slowly fallen asleep. "Perhaps the Permian ended with a whimper ...

Some have proposed that the disappearance of certain predators and competitors allowed some of the surviving creatures to thrive. And others have proposed that the climate changes associated with the ...

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

A deep dive into Earth’s distant past shows how life on land struggled to recover long after the worst warming event of all time.

The Early Permian ... long-snouted animals that trapped fishes and broad-snouted generalist feeders.” Despite the intense heart, the temnospondyls were able to expand throughout the Earth, with ...

Toward the end of the Permian period ... a modern analogy with land animals: “If someone asked you today where you’d find kangaroos, you’d say Australia,” she says.

the end-Permian event was the worst mass extinction of all time. But the impacts of this event for life on land have been elusive. By examining fossil plants and rocks from eastern Australia's ...