About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... Now we are creating a new mass extinction, wiping out countless species. Will life be as resilient this time?

The new study deciphered the single-most greatest mass extinction on Earth driven by a natural calamity that still exists.

Fossils from southern China provide evidence for a mass extinction during middle Permian time ... evaluated the temporal relationship between end-Triassic extinction and the Central Atlantic ...

The five peaks show the "Big Five" mass extinction events, when extinction rates sharply exceeded background rates. These occurred at the end of the Ordivician, the Late Devonian, the Permian ...

Global warming triggered by heavy volcanic activity is hypothesized by some scientists to have caused the end-Triassic extinction event that obliterated up to 80 percent of Earth’s species. These ...

Life in the Triassic period had a rough start. In the Permian period before, the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history had just taken place. Despite the widespread devastation ...

It was followed by the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods – at the end of the latter, the dinosaurs were wiped out in a mass extinction ... ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event.