Research led by Jilin University and Texas A&M University has documented the first known case of cinnabar-stained teeth in ...

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

Researchers say Turpan-Hami Basin in Xinjiang hosted diverse plant life throughout end-Permian mass extinction 252 million years ago.

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

An archaeological discovery in the Turpan Basin of northwest China has revealed the remains of a woman more than 2,000 years old, distinguished by her red-dyed teeth—a unique practice not ...

Credit: Zhang et al. 2013 One of the most intriguing aspects of the discovery is the origin of the cinnabar. The Turpan Basin is not rich in this mineral, suggesting it must have been imported from ...

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

A new study reveals that a region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium, or “Life oasis” for terrestrial plants ...

Learn more about the newly found fossils that show plant resilience during the “Great Dying.” ...

This image shows the reconstruction of the terrestrial landscape before (B), during (A), and after (C) the mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period in ...