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 ...

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 ...

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.

In wrapping up, it appears that this novel computational method not only provides a fresh perspective on the age-old dinosaur ... were lost. Permian-Triassic Extinction (about 252 million years ...

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 ...

The oceans teemed with the coiled-shelled ammonites, mollusks, and sea urchins that survived the Permian extinction and were quickly diversifying. The first corals appeared, though other reef ...

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 ...