Fossils in China suggest some plants survived the End-Permian extinction, indicating land ecosystems fared differently from ...

A team of scientists from University College Cork (UCC), the University of Connecticut, and the Natural History Museum of ...

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

Even during one of Earth's largest mass extinction events, where heat waves kill of a majority of Earth's species, at least ...

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

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

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian ...

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

A deep dive into Earth’s distant past shows how life on land struggled to recover long after the worst warming event of all ...

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