Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mass extinction that killed 80% of life on Earth 250 million years ago may not have been quite so disastrous for plants, new ...

In 2015, a fossil treasure trove, comprising 30,000 teeth and bones, was discovered on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen. After years of work, paleontologists have identified these fossils as ...

It happened before, and could happen again…. That's the message in a new study about the catastrophic collapse of Earth's tropical forests due to natural volcanic causes 252 million years ago. The ...

(CNN) — Around 252 million years ago, life on Earth suffered its most catastrophic blow to date: a mass extinction event known as the “Great Dying” that wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has ...

A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst ...

Long before the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs, Earth experienced a catastrophe so severe that nearly all life on the planet was erased. Scientists believe massive volcanic eruptions poisoned the ...

Learn more about the new species uncovered from the Permian Period and what they can tell us about the world during the Great Dying. What was the Permian Period like? What creatures thrived there ...