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

Scientists have found a rare life "oasis" where plants and animals thrived during Earth's deadliest mass extinction 252 million years ago.

Can plants uncover the survival secrets of Earth’s darkest days? A research team from (UCC), the University of Connecticut, and the Natural History Museum of Vienna has uncovered how plants responded to catastrophic climate change 250 million years ago.

A new study reveals that a region in China's Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or "life oasis," for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian mass extinction, the most severe biological crisis since the Cambrian period.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden prehistoric ecosystem in China that defied Earth's deadliest mass extinction, revealing a lost world that thrived while most life perished.

Even during one of Earth's largest mass extinction events, where heat waves kill of a majority of Earth's species, at least one oasis of survival existed. The findings suggest that there may have been pockets of protection throughout Earth - challenging the notion that the heat affected life on the planet uniformly,