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 ... ago between the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods.

A research team linked nearby stellar explosions to at least one, possibly two, mass die-offs after calculating the supernova ...

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Permian mass extinction, 252 million years ago, was linked to a 10°C rise in global temperatures due to massive volcanic CO 2 emissions. This led to climate ...

During a cataclysmic mass extinction event, there are typically not many places to hide. However, a region of the mountainous Turpan-Hami Basin in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in Western China ...

(Image Credit: Yang Dinghua) Artistic reconstruction of the terrestrial ecological landscape before the end Permian mass extinction based on fossil palynomorphs, plants , and tetrapods recovered, as ...

Ancient frog relatives survived the aftermath of the largest mass extinction of species by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial predators, academics have found. Ancient frog ...

These key records span the last million years of the Cretaceous and are synchronized ... Several times in Earth's history these caused mass extinction events of life on the surface of the planet.

When we talk about mass extinction events ... Earth about 66 million years ago and triggered the extinction of the dinosaurs. However, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was not the ...

Move over, TikTokers. It's time to shine a spotlight on some of the earliest influencers around: dinosaurs. When these ecosystem engineers were in their heyday, forest canopies were open and seeds ...

Some 66 million years after the Chicxulub asteroid impact kickstarted the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-T) extinction, scientists are still finding stunning evidence of its destruction. In 2021 ...