About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some ... typical of a healthy conifer forest. But in rocks from the Permo-Triassic boundary the pollen is replaced ...

During this period, Earth's climate changed from hot ... Ginkgoes carpeted the mid- to high northern latitudes, and podocarps, a type of conifer, were particularly successful south of the Equator.

Credit: NIGPAS Conifer trunk fossil recovered from the onset of the end-Permian mass extinction in ... the marine extinction rate during the same period. This conclusion was based on the discovery ...

Nobu Tamura/Wikimedia Commons The Triassic Period (252-201 million years ago) began after Earth's worst-ever extinction event devastated life. The Permian-Triassic extinction ... would have been full ...

The first signs of life returning to the land after the End-Permian catastrophe came from conifer-like trees ... the Late Smithian Thermal Maximum, a period of intense global warming that lasted ...

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Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...

The earliest periods, in the Permian, were cold, while the first period of the Triassic—the Induan—had a disturbed climate which the scientists couldn't identify. This could be caused by ...

Life in the Triassic period had a rough start. In the Permian period before, the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history had just taken place. Despite the widespread devastation ...