About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet's species. Less than 5 percent of the animal species in the seas survived. On land ...

Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling from cataclysmic volcanic activity in modern-day Siberia, which ushered in intense global warming, oxygen depletion, and ocean acidification ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and bounced back faster.

Read More: The Permian Extinction: Life on Earth Nearly Disappeared During ... we're going to see taxonomic homogenization of organisms in modern oceans as well." ...

Toward the end of the Permian period, Earth was reeling from ... and ocean acidification that killed most marine organisms 252 million years ago. But the extinction alone doesn't explain the ...

But its insights aren’t limited to the end-Permian extinction, however ... we’re going to see taxonomic homogenization of organisms in modern oceans as well.” ...