Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...
After the end-Permian mass extinction, certain species thrived in warmer, oxygen-depleted waters, spreading globally. This ...
A new study reveals that Earth's biomes changed dramatically in the wake of mass volcanic eruptions 252 million years ago.
Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...
Stanford scientists found that dramatic climate changes after the Great Dying enabled a few marine species to spread globally ...
About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period ... "That's your Permo-Triassic transition zone. Brace yourself, you're about to go through the extinction." The fossils embedded ...
A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian ...
After Earth's worst mass extinction, surviving ocean animals spread worldwide. Stanford's model shows why this happened.
However, the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event was not the worst loss of life in our planet’s history. That distinction belongs to the Permian-Triassic extinction or the Great Dying.