The Permian extinction reminds him of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express, in which a corpse with 12 knife wounds is discovered on a train. Twelve different killers conspired to slay ...

Since the first sharks emerged in the world’s oceans nearly half a billion years ago, the world has gone through five major ...

Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction, or “The Great Dying,” this cataclysm wiped out over 80% of marine ...

During its approximately 4.5 billion years of existence, the Earth has experienced five major mass extinction events that are responsible for reshaping the planet both physically and biologically. The ...

The analysis suggests that there was a mass extinction event at the time of the end-Permian, on land - and that it happened at the same time as the marine end-Permian extinction.

Long before T. rex, the Earth was dominated by super-carnivores stranger and more terrifying than anything dreamed up by ...

During the end-Permian extinction 95 percent of all species on Earth became extinct, compared to only 75 percent during the K-T when a large asteroid apparently caused the dinosaurs to disappear.

The end-Permian extinction, tooking place about 250 million years ago, eliminated more than 90 percent of Earth's marine species and 75 percent of terrestrial species.

The marine version of the end-Permian extinction took up 100,000 years out of the entire 3,800,000,000 years that life has existed--the equivalent to 14 minutes out of a whole year.

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 ...

A team of scientists has identified an additional force that likely contributed to a mass extinction event 250 million years ago. Its analysis of minerals in southern China indicate that volcano ...