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

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

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 ... But most life is concentrated ...

Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...

or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the ...

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

Nobu Tamura/Wikimedia Commons The Triassic Period (252-201 million years ago) began after Earth's worst-ever extinction event devastated life. The Permian-Triassic extinction ... a group of animals ...

or "Life oasis" for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the Cambrian period. The research, published in Science Advances, challenges ...