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

If you have ever stared at a moldy piece of bread and a fuzziness is viewed you are looking at colonies of spores. Spores travel.

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

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 ...

A healthy, green lawn is more than just a pretty sight—it’s a sign of a thriving ecosystem right in your backyard. But when ...

How did Earth's earliest seed plants capture pollen to reproduce? A team of scientists has uncovered new clues by ...

Our consumption will beat out any stray spores hoping to wreak havoc. Mary Lee Minor is a member of the Earth, Wind and Flowers Garden Club, an accredited master gardener, a flower show judge for ...

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

Prototaxites, an extinct organism from the Devonian period, has been thought to be a fungus since its first fossil was ...

The $5 billion top-up into the Coastal and Flood Protection Fund is “a very clear sign” of this, she says. Read more at ...

The mass extinction that killed 80% of life on Earth 250 million years ago may not have been quite ... In this place, ...