Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...
An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...
The prevailing theory has been that volcanic activity in the Siberian Traps released massive amounts of carbon dioxide.
About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species. Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived. On land ...
Volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide 250 million years ago heated the climate so much that extreme El Niño events became the norm ...
A new study links the largest mass extinction, which occurred 252 million years ago during the Permian-Triassic period, to ...
Extreme weather events lasting more than a decade could have killed off forests 250 million years ago, contributing to ...
This week, a billionaire made a spacewalk, archaeologists found a new, isolated Neanderthal lineage and the James Webb Space ...
The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western ...
More than 17,000 species are known to have survived until the mega-extinction that ended the Permian period 251 million years ago. A predator of the Cambrian was the giant, shrimplike Anomalocaris ...
Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global catastrophic events in Earth’s history, more devastating than the one ...