Nearly all the trees died. Looy had told me that the Black Triangle was the best place today to see what the world would have looked like after the Permian extinction. This didn't look like ...

Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global ...

Researchers from Nanjing University in China discovered some imperative insights from the end-Permian mass extinction, which was the most severe ecological event in the Phanerozoic approximately ...

when extinction rates sharply exceeded background rates. These occurred at the end of the Ordivician, the Late Devonian, the Permian/Triassic (P/Tr) boundary, the end of the Triassic, and the ...

Fossils from southern China provide evidence for a mass extinction during middle Permian time, 260 million years ago. The close association of this event with an outpouring of lava, initially into ...

This shows paleogeography during the Permian-Triassic boundary extinction 252 million years ago. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

The oceans teemed with the coiled-shelled ammonites, mollusks, and sea urchins that survived the Permian extinction and were quickly diversifying. The first corals appeared, though other reef ...

The lizard lives in a very small area of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico overlaying a part of the Permian Basin, which over the last ... This destruction in turn is the main cause of the ...

Then 252 million years ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event. This is the biggest extinction event our planet has ever seen, in which 70 per cent of species on land disappeared along with ...