A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst ...
A dense Arctic bonebed shows marine life and ocean food webs recovered far faster than scientists once believed after mass ...
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What life was like during the Permian period
Welcome to the Permian period. An ancient time full of life, but also death. The Permian was home to the largest mass extinction event in Earth's history. Even bigger than what wiped out the dinosaurs ...
A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst ...
The biggest mass extinction of all time happened 251 million years ago, at the Permian-Triassic boundary. Virtually all of life was wiped out, but the pattern of how life was killed off on land has ...
The Great Dying at the end of the Permian Period 250 million years ago may have been amplified by El Niño events far stronger and longer lasting than any today. These mega El Niños caused wild swings ...
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How would you die during every mass extinction?
Since the beginning of time, Earth has created life and then wiped out most of it in catastrophic, ultra-destructive moments.
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 crisis ...
“One of the great mysteries has been the survival and flourishing of a major group of amphibians called the temnospondyls,” Aamir Mehmood, a study co-author and evolutionary biologist at the ...
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