So much time has elapsed since these vast death events, we may never know their cause exactly, but this work indicates it isn ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

New research suggests that powerful star explosions, called supernovae, may have caused at least two mass extinctions in ...

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

NANJING -- A new study has revealed that a region of the Turpan-Hami Basin in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous ...

Scientists have found a rare life "oasis" where plants and animals thrived during Earth's deadliest mass extinction 252 ...

Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth’s history. A new study ...

Can plants reveal the secrets of survival during Earth's darkest days? At an outcrop north of Sydney, Australia, the research ...

Namely, a group of primitive amphibians called the temnospondyls. They may have survived the Great Dying by feeding on some ...

"If a massive star were to explode as a supernova close to the Earth, the results would be devastating for life on Earth," said Nick Wright, an astrophysicist at Keele University in the United Kingdom ...