Learn how ancient plants survived extreme heat after the Permian–Triassic mass extinction and what their strategy could mean ...

Ancient lycophytes may have survived extreme heat during Earth’s worst extinction using a rare photosynthesis method.

Following the worst mass extinction event on Earth, the land was not entirely barren of life. In the wake of this cataclysm, ...

Scientists have found evidence of wildfires that occurred 237 million years ago and shaped ancient Triassic ecosystems.

Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

Scientists have discovered that lycophytes, small spore-producing plants, survived the Permian-Triassic mass extinction by adopting a photosynthetic strategy that included nighttime carbon intake.

Examples of various damage types on different plant groups from Member VII of the Xujiahe Formation. Credit: NIGPAS A recent study of fossil plants reveals plant–insect interactions across the ...

This happens through natural processes like plant growth and chemical weathering, where CO2 is absorbed and locked into soils, rocks, or ocean sediments. But the new research shows that these systems ...

Sofie Lindström and fellow Senior researcher Gunver Pedersen (GEUS) during fieldwork in Sweden, sampling sediments that were deposited in forested mires and rivers at the onset of the end-Triassic ...

The mass extinction that ended the Permian geological epoch, 252 million years ago, wiped out most animals living on Earth. Huge volcanoes erupted, releasing 100,000 billion metric tons of carbon ...