Rocks of that age contain traces of an asteroid that ... "This is how you can imagine the Permian extinction," he said. "Rotting biomass." "It's not easy to kill so many species," says Doug ...

Scientists analyzed the age of rocks in Southwest China ... "At the end of the Permian period, the mass extinction of terrestrial organisms first began at the high latitudes and gradually spread ...

The Permian extinction saw the loss of 80 to 96 percent ... A crater of the right size and age, known as the Chixulub crater, was found off the coast of Yucatan, along with rocks known as shocked ...

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 ...

Life was put to the ultimate test a quarter-billion years ago as extinction events ravaged ... extinctions that saw the Permian give way to the first age of the dinosaurs, the Triassic.

He discovered in 1834 that rocks throughout Europe of a certain age contained a unique fossil ... Then 252 million years ago came the Permian-Triassic extinction event. This is the biggest ...

Their resilience enabled them to survive numerous disasters, including the Permian-Triassic extinction which wiped ... of the continents and the ice age. Today, though, many are threatened in ...

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 ...