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

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

Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...

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

This extinction event occurred 252 million years ago and was most likely triggered by a cascade of volcanic eruptions. ​​ Though 90% of life perished, some species survived despite the environmental ...

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

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

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

"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 ...

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 ...

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.